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VACCINATION  AND  LOCKJAW 

Full  Responsibility  of  Vaccination  for  Lockjaw  Deaths  Proved 


THE  LIBELS  OF  THE  NEW  YORK  TRIBUNE  AND  THE 
ERRORS  OF  DR,  ANDERSON'S  GOVERNMENT 
REPORT  EXPOSED  AND  ANSWERED 

By  CHAS.  M.  HIGGINS 
Of  the  Anti -Vaccination  League  of  America 

TO  THE  PRESS  AND  PUBLIC— GREETINGS : 

This  public  letter  exposing  the  libels  of  the  New  York  Tribune  and 
demanding  their  retraction  proves  that  compulsory  vaccination  is  worse 
than  smallpox  and  shows  how  frequently  it  kills  little  school  children  by 
lockjaw  and  other  infections  and  that  it  is  now  actually  ten  times  more 
dangerous  and  fatal  than  natural  smallpox,  and  it  also  shows  how  these 
shocking  facts  are  denied  and  concealed  by  vaccinists  and  medical  au- 
thorities interested  in  such  concealment. 

This  letter  to  The  Tribune  also  makes  a full  exposure  of  Dr.  An- 
derson’s recent  Government  Report  on  Lockjaw  after  Vaccination  and 
shows  how  it  is  shamefully  irrelevant  and  misleading  and  evades  and 
conceals  the  full  truth.  It  also  shows  how  Dr.  Anderson,  soon  after 
making  this  official  Government  Report  which  excuses  vaccine  virus 
from  all  blame  for  deaths  from  lockjaw,  resigned  his  official  position  at 
a salary  of  $4,500  per  year  and  entered  the  employ  of  one  of  the  biggest 
makers  of  vaccine  virus  in  the  country,  at  the  gigantic  salary  of  $25,000 
per  year ! 

Demand  is  also  here  made  for  the  immediate  repeal  of  the  present 
evil  school  vaccination  law  and  for  the  legal  suppression  and  punish- 
ment of  this  shocking  crime  of  child  slaughter  by  compulsory  medical 
disease,  as  a condition  for  the  fundamental  right  of  the  school  child  to 
education. 

To  The  Tribune  Association, 

Tribune  Building, 

154  Nassau  Street, 

New  York  City. 

Dear  Sirs : 

In  your  issue  of  The  New  York  Tribune  of  June  28th,  1915,  in 
your  column  entitled  “Ad-Visor,”  edited  by  your  advertising  editor  and 
expert,  Mr.  Samuel  Hopkins  Adams,  you  committed  a most  false,  stupid 


VACCINATION  AND  LOCKJAW 

Full  Responsibility  of  Vaccination  for  Lockjaw  Deaths  Proved 


THE  LIBELS  OF  THE  NEW  YORK  TRIBUNE  AND  THE 
ERRORS  OF  DR*  ANDERSON'S  GOVERNMENT 
REPORT  EXPOSED  AND  ANSWERED 

By  CHAS.  M.  HIGGINS 
Of  the  Anti-Vaccination  League  of  America 

TO  THE  PRESS  AND  PUBLIC— GREETINGS : 

This  public  letter  exposing  the  libels  of  the  New  York  Tribune  and 
demanding  their  retraction  proves  that  compulsory  vaccination  is  worse 
than  smallpox  and  shows  how  frequently  it  kills  little  school  children  by 
lockjaw  and  other  infections  and  that  it  is  now  actually  ten  times  more 
dangerous  and  fatal  than  natural  smallpox,  and  it  also  shows  how  these 
shocking  facts  are  denied  and  concealed  by  vaccinists  and  medical  au- 
thorities interested  in  such  concealment. 

This  letter  to  The  Tribune  also  makes  a full  exposure  of  Dr.  An- 
derson’s recent  Government  Report  on  Lockjaw  after  Vaccination  and 
shows  how  it  is  shamefully  irrelevant  and  misleading  and  evades  and 
conceals  the  full  truth.  It  also  shows  how  Dr.  Anderson,  soon  after 
making  this  official  Government  Report  which  excuses  vaccine  virus 
from  all  blame  for  deaths  from  lockjaw,  resigned  his  official  position  at 
a salary  of  $4,500  per  year  and  entered  the  employ  of  one  of  the  biggest 
makers  of  vaccine  virus  in  the  country,  at  the  gigantic  salary  of  $25,000 
per  year! 

Demand  is  also  here  made  for  the  immediate  repeal  of  the  present 
evil  school  vaccination  law  and  for  the  legal  suppression  and  punish- 
ment of  this  shocking  crime  of  child  slaughter  by  compulsory  medical 
disease,  as  a condition  for  the  fundamental  right  of  the  school  child  to 
education. 

To  The  Tribune  Association, 

Tribune  Building, 

154  Nassau  Street, 

New  York  City. 

Dear  Sirs: 

In  your  issue  of  The  New  York  Tribune  of  June  28th,  1915,  in 
your  column  entitled  “Ad-Visor,”  edited  by  your  advertising  editor  and 
expert,  Mr.  Samuel  Hopkins  Adams,  you  committed  a most  false,  stupid 


and  malicious  libel  against  me,  personally,  and  against  the  cause  I repre- 
sent, in  the  publication  of  a letter  from  Dr.  William  T.  Power  contain- 
ing the  false,  libelous  and  malicious  charges  that  the  series  of  adver- 
tisements which  I had  inserted  in  several  of  your  previous  issues  for 
the  Anti- Vaccination  League  of  America  and  signed  by  me  personally, 
exposing  the  evils  of  compulsory  vaccination  and  its  great  danger  to 
human  health  and  life  and  advocating  its  legal  repeal  and  prohibition, 
were  “vicious,”  “ reeking  with  untruths”  and  filled  with  “intentional 
misstatement.” 


THE  TRIBUNE  LIBELS  ITSELF  AND  ITS  ADVERTISER 

This  grossly  libelous  letter  from  Dr.  Power  was  greatly  aggravated' 
by  the  statements  of  your  advertising  editor,  Mr.  Adams,  which  virtually 
approved  and  endorsed  the  entire  libel  of  Dr.  Power  in  a most  stupid 
and  flagrant  manner  and  made  no  effort  to  refute  or  correct  the  false 
and  malicious  statements  in  this  letter,  although  it  not  only  grossly 
libeled  one  of  your  own  honest  advertisers  but  actually  charged  The 
Tribune  itself  with  a most  serious  offense  against  journalistic  ethics 
and  public  right  in  that,  notwithstanding  that  my  series  of  several  large 
and  expensive  advertisements  (occupying  many  columns  in  each  issue) 
were,  as  alleged,  plainly  “vicious/'  “reeking  with  untruths"  and  filled 
with  “intentional  misstatement,"  with  intent  to  deceive  the  public  mind 
and  injure  the  public  welfare,  yet  nevertheless  The  Tribune  freely  ac- 
cepted and  published  all  those  alleged  false,  vicious  and  publicly  in- 
jurious articles  for  pay! 

Instead,  however,  of  your  Mr.  Adams  resenting  and  refuting  these 
grossly  false  and  libelous  charges  of  Dr.  Power  against  The  Tribune 
itself  and  against  one  of  your  accurately  truthful,  disinterested  and 
honest  advertisers,  he  practically  accepted  and  approved  these  foul  and 
stupid  charges  made,  not  only  against  me  and  my  cause,  but  against  his 
own  journal,  The  Tribune.  And  your  Mr.  Adams  not  only  negatively 
accepted  and  endorsed  this  libel  of  Dr.  Power  by  failure  to  resent  or  re- 
fute it,  as  was  his  duty  even  to  his  own  paper,  but  positively  confirmed 
it  by  ignorantly  and  fatuously  stating  that  my  truthful,  honest  and  accu- 
rate work  in  these  advertisements,  which  clearly  proved  by  impregnable 
statistical  facts  the  barbarism  of  all  compulsory  vaccination  and  its  great 
danger  to  the  health  and  life  of  school  children,  was  in  Mr.  Adams’ 
false  opinion  nothing  but  a work  for  “ignorance,"  “suffering"  and  a 
“higher  death-rate."  (See  page  16.) 

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DOUBLE  LIBEL  FROM  DOCTOR  AND  EDITOR  FALSE  AND 
FOUL  AND  CANNOT  BE  VERIFIED  OR  JUSTIFIED 

Now,  it  may  be  very  interesting  to  the  cause  of  public  right  and 
truth  when  we  get  Dr.  Power  and  Mr.  Adams  before  a jury  of  this  city 
to  have  them  try  to  show  how  the  demonstrated  and  unanswerable  facts, 
as  to  the  fatality  of  vaccination,  shown  in  these  advertisements  make 
for  “ignorance,”  “suffering,”  and  “a  higher  death-rate,”  and  where  these 
advertisements  are  in  any  sense  “vicious,”  “reeking  with  untruths”  and 
filled  with  “intentional  misstatement.”  We  can  certainly  give  the 
authors  of  these  libels  more  than  an  uncomfortable  hour  when  they  are 
placed  on  the  witness  stand  to  try  to  prove  their  false  statements  or 
justify  their  libels  if  they  can. 


THE  TRIBUNE  BIRD  WHICH  FOULS  ITS  OWN  NEST 

There  is  a wise  old  saying  that  “It  is  a dirty  bird  which  fouls  its 
own  nest,”  and  I think  this  old  saying  can  be  applied  with  perfect  truth 
and  fitness  to  your  Mr.  Adams  in  this  case,  whose  publication  of  the 
grossly  false  and  libelous  letter  of  Dr.  Power,  together  with  his  own 
fatuous  indorsement  of  it,  not  only  libels  me  flagrantly  in  a civil  as 
well  as  a criminal  sense,  but  grossly  fouls  his  own  paper,  The  Tribune, 
whose  motto  is,  “First  to  Last — the  Truth;  News — Editorials — Adver- 
tisements,” and  it  will  be  seen  that  this  stupid  libel  of  your  Mr.  Adams 
means  that  your  paper  inserted  my  advertisements,  which  were  so  grossly 
improper  as  to  be  plainly  “vicious,”  “reeking  with  untruth”  and  full  of 
“intentional  misstatement,”  and  making  for  “ignorance,”  “suffering”  and 
“a  higher  death-rate,”  and  that  you  did  all  this  false  and  foul  work, 
injurious  in  a public  sense,  simply  for  the  pay  you  received  for  these 
big  advertisements,  which  amounted  to  the  snug  sum  of  two  thousand 
dollars,  more  or  less,  for  the  twelve  or  more  articles  of  the  series ! 

Now  each  of  these  articles,  as  you  will  remember,  was  signed  by 
me  personally  as  a man  of  full  responsibility  and  good  standing  in  this 
community  and  taking  full  responsibility  for  every  statement  contained 
in  these  articles,  and  they  were  evidently  so  satisfactory  to  you  when 
you  inserted  them  that  you  never  made  the  least  objection  to  them  or 
asked  to  alter  a line  or  a word  in  them,  but  on  the  contrary  the  fine 
manner  in  which  most  of  these  advertisements  were  set  up  by  your 
typographic  department,  so  as  to  bring  out  and  display  the  most  telling 
points  to  good  advantage,  showed  that  you  had  at  least  some  men  in 
your  establishment  who  were  in  perfect  sympathy  with  the  high  public 

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purpose  of  these  articles,  to  expose  and  suppress  one  of  the  greatest 
medical  abuses  and  evils  in  our  present  age.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to 
say  that  I also  was  well  satisfied  with  the  advertising  service  and  the  re- 
sults given  by  The  Tribune,  as  I think  we  found  that  your  paper  had  a 
high  class  family  circulation  within  the  city  and  also  a large  circulation 
in  many  towns  outside  of  the  city  which  we  wished  to  reach,  and  that 
we  actually  got  more  replies  from  our  advertisements  in  The  Tribune, 
and  one  or  two  other  journals,  than  from  any  of  the  city  papers  wdiich 
we  have  used. 

DOUBLE  DAMAGES  FOR  BREACH  OF  ADVERTISER’S  CON- 
TRACT AND  LIBEL  ON  ADVERTISER 

Now,  as  a proposition  of  law  and  equity,  covering  both  the  princi- 
ples of  advertising  contracts  and  acts  of  libel,  I think  it  must  be  plain 
to  you  that,  having  paid  you  about  two  thousand  dollars  for  this  serv- 
ice in  publishing  a series  of  advertisements,  which  were  accepted  freely 
by  you  without  any  objection,  when  you  afterwards,  in  effect,  foqlly 
and  falsely  tell  the  public  in  your  columns  that  all  these  advertisements 
were  really  vicious,  reeking  with  untruths,  full  of  intentional  misstate- 
ment and  making  for  nothing  but  ignorance,  suffering  and  a higher 
death-rate  and  therefore  having  no  intent  or  purpose  except  to  deceive 
and  injure  the  public  instead  of  being  for  the  public  good,  you  therefore 
by  this  flagrant  act  not  only  commit  a most  gross  and  stupid  libel  against 
mei  but  also  clearly  violate  your  advertising  contract  with  me  by  destroy- 
ing or  attempting  to  destroy  all  the  expected  service  or  effect  of  these 
advertisements  in  the  minds  of  your  readers,  for  which  service  I had 
already  paid  you  in  full.  I therefore  think  it  will  not  take  very  long 
for  any  Court  and  jury  in  this  vicinity  to  decide  the  nature  of  your 
offenses  in  law  and  equity  in  this  case  and  to  determine  the  damages 
that  should  be  paid  to  me,  both  under  the  law  of  libel  and  the  law  of 
implied  and  actual  contracts,  for  I think  it  is  clear  that  in  law  and 
equity  I have  a double  claim  of  damages  against  you  in  this  case,  both 
on  violation  of  contract  and  on  injury  by  libel. 

RESPONSIBILITY  OF  MR.  HIGGINS  AND  HIS  ASSOCIATES 
AND  THEIR  ABILITY  AND  DETERMINATION  TO  DEFEND 
ALL  FALSE  AND  FOUL  ATTACKS. 

I therefore  now  wish  you  to  clearly  understand  that  I and  other 
officers  of  the  Anti-Vaccination  League  of  America  are  responsible  men, 
fully  able  to  defend  ourselves  and  our  cause  against  all  falsification  and 

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defamation,  and  that  we  do  not  intend  to  let  any  publisher  like  your- 
selves or  any  representative  of  vaccination  interests  or  medical  societies, 
like  Dr.  Power,  no  matter  how  great  they  may  think  themselves,  defame 
or  injure  us  or  our  cause  in  any  way  whatever  in  the  public  mind. 

As  to  our  chief  officers,  our  President  and  Secretary,  Mr.  John 
Pitcairn  and  Mr.  Porter  F.  Cope,  both  of  Philadelphia,  you  can  readily 
learn  upon  inquiry  the  high  character  and  standing  of  these  men  in  their 
home  community,  and  you  can  easily  find  out  what  is  my  own  character 
and  standing  in  the  community  of  Brooklyn.  And  let  me  now  say  to 
you  distinctly  at  this  point  that  I will  take  entire  charge  of  this  legal 
claim  upon  The  Tribune  and  others  in  this  case  and  will  not  trouble 
my  fellow  officers  of  the  League  in  this  matter  whatever,  as  from  the 
outset  I have  held  myself  entirely  responsible  for  anything  put  out 
under  my  own  signature  personally  or  officially  in  my  own  territory  of 
New  York  State.  For  your  own  information  I might  here  add  that  I 
do  not  enter  into  any  matter  of  public  reform  like  this  without  full 
preparation  and  deliberation  and  that  I am  not  without  experience  in 
labor  and  litigation  for  the  public  good,  as  you  can  readily  learn  if  you 
look  into  the  court  records  in  this  State  in  the  matter  of  forest  protec- 
tion and  of  bank  receiverships,  and  that  therefore  I am  no  novice  in 
litigation  for  public  justice  and  reform  and  have  no  fear  in  undertaking 
the  legal  and  moral  vindication  of  myself  and  my  cause  in  this  matter, 
before  any  Court  and  jury  in  this  State.  But  I also  want  to  say  at  this 
point  that  I am  not  as  anxious  for  an  award  of  damages  in  this 
matter  as  I am  for  the  full  and  proper  vindication  of  the  good  cause 
which  I represent,  viz.,  the  public  exposure  of  the  gross  falsehoods  and 
dangers  of  compulsory  vaccination,  the  repeal  of  the  present  evil 
law,  and  the  saving  of  the  health  and  life  of  our  little  school  children 
from  this  utterly  needless  and  barbarous  medical  practice,  which  is  so 
profitable  to  the  vaccinating  doctors  and  vaccine  makers  but  is  more 
dangerous  to  children  than  natural  smallpox  and  now  causes  more 
deaths  among  them  every  year  than  smallpox  itself,  which  I have  fully 
demonstrated  in  the  articles  already  published  in  your  columns. 

HIGH  PUBLIC  PURPOSE  WITH  NO  SORDID  MOTIVE 

INVOLVED 

In  the  case  of  the  liquidation  of  the  Brooklyn  Bank  in  1908  with 
one  hundred  cents  on  the  dollar,  I did  not  accept  one  cent  for  my  own 
services  as  receiver  but  applied  my  legal  fees  for  the  benefit  of  the  de- 
positors and  other  public  purposes,  and  should  I obtain  any  damages  in 
this  case  I would  apply  every  dollar  so  received  to  this  high  and  holy 
cause  which  you  have  so  falsely,  foully  and  stupidly  libeled  in  your 
columns. 


FULJL  RETRACTION  AND  SATISFACTION  DEMANDED 

I therefore  now  respectfully  demand  that  you  make  a full  and 
complete  retraction  and  correction  of  the  falsehoods  and  libels  that  you 
have  uttered  against  me  and  my  cause  in  the  publication  herein  com- 
plained of,  and  that  you  make  this  correction  and  apology  as  complete 
and  as  prominent  in  your  paper  as  the  retraction  recently  made  of  your 
libel  against  the  present  Attorney  General  of  the  State,  Hon.  E.  E. 
Woodbury. 

If  you  do  not  see  fit  to  make  this  full  and  ample  correction  and 
satisfaction,  which  public  truth  and  justice  require  and  private  right 
demands,  I shall  be  compelled  to  ask  the  courts  for  redress  in  a suit  for 
civil  libel  against  your  company  and  Dr.  Power  jointly ; and  I shall  also 
carefully  consider  the  propriety  of  a suit  for  criminal  libel  against  your 
Mr.  Adams  and  Dr.  Power. 


OTHER  FALLACIES  AND  LIBELS  CONSIDERED 
THE  LOCKJAW  LIE  EXPOSED 

The  gross  acts  of  libel  above  specified  have  been  in  a measure 
aggravated  and  continued  by  editorial  articles  in  your  issues  of  July 
27th  and  August  3rd,  the  first  being  entitled,  “Vaccination  and  Te- 
tanus/' and  the  second  article  being  headed,  “Gross  and  Deliberate.” 
Both  of  these  editorials,  together  with  the  previous  libel  complained  of, 
clearly  show  the  animus,  prejudice  and  false  information  which  seem 
to  have  controlled  and  misled  your  editors  in  not  only  committing  the 
first  libels  referred  to,  but  in  adding  to  and  continuing  this  libel  in  the 
two  editorials  just  named,  which  positively  charge  both  myself  and  other 
opponents  of  compulsory  vaccination  with  an  entire  want  of  truth,  can- 
dor and  good  faith  on  the  question  of  the  fatality  of  vaccination  and  its 
direct  and  indirect  responsibility  for  many  deaths  from  lockjaw  follow- 
ing vaccination.  In  those  editorials  you  specifically  refer  to  two  op- 
ponents of  vaccination,  Mr.  Rinn  and  Mr.  Weinberger,  as  being  guilty 
of  a “gross  and  deliberate”  perversion  of  Dr.  Rosenau’s  conclusions  as 
to  the  relation  of  vaccine  virus  to  lockjaw  infections  as  given  in 
Bulletin  12  of  the  U.  S.  Hygienic  Laboratory  of  1903.  Any  close  stu- 
dent of  this  subject  knows,  however,  that  Mr.  Rinn  and  Mr.  Wein- 
berger made  no  deliberate  perversion  of  Dr.  Rosenau’s  conclusions  as 
to  vaccine  virus  and  lockjaw  but  merely  a slight  inadvertent  mistake  as 
to  the  natural  versus  the  artificial  presence  of  lockjaw  germs  in  the 
virus,  which  in  any  case  is  little  more  than  a quibble  and  does  not 

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affect  the  essential  facts  in  any  serious  way  whatever.  For  example:— 
It  is  true  that  Dr.  Rosenau  stated  he  could  not  find  the  lockjaw  germ 
in  any  specimen  of  the  virus  itself  in  the  market  which  he  tested,  but 
nevertheless  he  gave  clear  warning  that  it  was  likely  to  exist  in  virus 
at  any  time  and  must  be  carefully  guarded  against  for  the  very  obvious 
reason  that  the  lockjaw  germ  originates  in  the  body  of  the  bovine  ani- 
mal from  which  the  virus  itself  is  made,  and  he  showed  also  by  his  ex- 
periments that  the  lockjaw  germs  which  he  deliberately  put  into  glycer- 
inated  virus,  for  test,  could  live  in  it  for  months  and  that  the  glycerine 
had  no  fatal  effect  on  them  but  actually  preserves  them  and  if  such 
virus  were  injected  into  the  human  body  it  could  cause  lockjaw^  Now, 
other  investigators  have  actually  found  lockjaw  in  marketed  virus  sev- 
eral times  and  have  acknowledged  that  no  matter  how  seldom  this  in- 
vasion happens  the  possibility  of  this  danger  always  exists,  because 
the  germ  occurs  in  the  body  and  surroundings  of  the  vaccinated  calf 
itself,  while  other  experts  have  shown  that  lockjaw  germs  could  be 
known  to  exist  in  virus  and  yet  could  not  always  be  demonstrated  to 
be  there  by  tests.  Furthermore,  it  has  also  been  shown  that  in  some 
cases  a patient  might  die  in  the  agonies  of  what  was  clearly  and  posi- 
tively a case  of  lockjaw  and  yet  the  germs  could  not  be  found  in  the 
body  upon  careful  test. 

ACCURATE  TRUTH  OF  ADVERTISER’S  STATEMENTS 
LIBELED  BY  TRIBUNE 

You  will  therefore  see  that  you  have  been  wrongfully  accusing  some 
critics  of  vaccination,  in  your  last  editorial,  of  “gross  and  deliberate” 
perversion  as  to  the  real  truth  on  this  very  complex  subject,  but  I have 
noted  that  in  this  editorial  you  have  not  attemped  to  charge  me  in- 
dividually with  any  such  “perversion”  or  inaccuracy,  for  the  good  rea- 
son, I believe,  that  in  none  of  my  published  articles  could  you  find  any 
such  inaccuracy  or  perversion,  notwithstanding  Dr.  Powers  false  and 
foul  statements.  And  you  may  remember  that  in  a large  advertisement 
published  in  your  columns  on  June  29th,  1914,  I covered  this  subject 
fully  and  showed  how  vaccination  was  directly  and  indirectly  responsi- 
ble for  deaths  from  lockjaw  and  how  irrelevant  the  question  was 
whether  the  lockjaw  germ  was  in  the  virus  itself  or  not,  at  the  moment 
of  vaccination,  and  what  a contemptible  medical  quibble  and  dastardly 
evasion  of  the  real  truth  this  false  contention  was.  This  article  was 
entitled: — “Deadis  from  Vaccination  Greater  Than  Deaths  from  Small- 
pox. Medical  Falsehoods  Denying  Deaths  from  Vaccination  and  Lock- 
jaw Answered  and  Crushed.”  And  this  article  plainly  set  forth  the  real 

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facts  on  this  subject  and  showed  clearly  how  vaccination  can  cause,  and 
does  cause,  deaths  from  lockjaw,  although  the  virus  itself  at  the  moment 
of  vaccination  may  be  entirely  free  of  tetanus  germs.  This  clear  expo- 
sition of  the  real  truth  in  this  matter,  therefore,  renders  your  libels  in 
the  different  articles  now  referred  to  more  aggravated  and  inexcusable 
in  law  and  equity  because  I frhink  it  can  be  easily  proved,  before  any 
Court  and  jury,  that,  having  previously  laid  these  facts  before  you,  this 
information  should  have  restrained  you  from  the  falsehoods  and  mis- 
representations contained  in  the  several  libels  complained  of. 

DR.  ANDERSON’S  MISLEADING  REPORT  ON  VACCINATION 
. AND  LOCKJAW  ANALYZED  AND  RIDDLED 

Not  only  did  you  disregard  the  clear  truth  which  I had  already 
laid  before  you  in  my  elaborate  article  printed  in  your  issue  of  June 
29th  and  occupying  three  full  columns,  but  this  inexcusable  mistake 
further  misled  you  into  credulously  accepting  a most  shameful  one-sided 
report  entitled  “Post  Vaccination  Tetanus,”  published  in  the  U.  S. 
Public  Health  Reports  of  July  16,  1915,  and  written  by  Dr.  J.  F. 
Anderson,  formerly  of  the  U.  S'.  Public  Health  Service  but  now  an 
employe  of  vaccine  manufacturers,  which  you  s'eem  to  have  readily 
accepted  as  gospel  truth  and  conclusive  on  this  whole  subject,  whereas 
it  is  nothing  but  a shamefully  irrelevant  defense  of  vaccination  and 
a gross  evasion  and  concealment  of  the  whole  truth,  and  is  fully  re- 
futed in  my  elaborate  article  of  June  29th,  which  you  so  carelessly 
disregarded  while  you  swallowed  the  one-sided  report  of  Dr.  Ander- 
son, now  interested  in  the  manufacture  of  vaccine  virus,  as  being 
the  whole  and  disinterested  truth  without  using  even  a grain  of  the 
saving  salt  of  journalistic  common  sense,  which  would  have  led  you  to 
look  on  both  sides  of  this  great  subject  before  you  committed  yourselves 
on  either  side.  This  precaution  would  have  saved  you  from  the  great 
mistake  and  wrong  of  which  you  now  seem  to  be  guilty  in  committing 
yourselves  to  that  side  which  is  professionally  and  commercially  in- 
terested in  denying  and  concealing  the  full  truth  from  the  public,  to  its 
own  advantage,  and  in  libeling  the  honest  and  disinterested  men  who 
have  given  you  the  full  truth  on  this  subject. 

WHY  DID  DR.  ANDERSON,  WHILE  EMPLOYED  BY  THE 
U.  S.  GOVERNMENT  AT  A SALARY  OF  $4,500,  WRITE  AN 
OFFICIAL  REPORT  EXCUSING  VACCINE  VIRUS  FROM 
ALL  BLAME  FOR  LOCKJAW  DEATHS  AND  THEN  RESIGN 
AND  TAKE  A PLACE  IN  A BIG  VACCINE  FACTORY  AT  A 
SALARY  OF  $25,000  PER  YEAR? 

With  regard  to  the  real  character  of  this  report  of  Dr.  Anderson 
for  whole-hearted  truth,  accuracy  and  disinterestedness — a report  which 


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is  now  being  heralded  all  over  the  country  in  editorial  offices  and  else- 
where as  a full  and  perfect  defense  of  vaccination,  and  which  has  so 
seriously  misled  you  and  many  others — it  may  be  sufficient  for  me  to 
say  here  that,  if  Dr.  Anderson  had  deliberately  started  out  to  make  a 
report  which  would  be  wholly  in  the  interest  of  vaccinating  doctors  and 
vaccine  manufacturers  and  to  give  only  one  side  of  the  subject  or  only 
one-half  of  the  truth  and  withhold  the  whole  truth  on  this  most  im- 
portant matter  from  the  public  so  as  to  save  vaccination  from  all  re- 
proach and  responsibility  for  deaths  from  lockjaw  and  to  conceal  the 
most  common  and  frequent  ways  in  which  vaccination  really  causes 
lockjaw  and  kills  the  vaccinated  child,  he  could  not  have  succeeded 
better ! Now,  what  are  the  significant,  connecting  and  humiliating  facts, 
as  reported  in  this  case?  Dr.  Anderson,  although  a young  man,  is  said 
to  be  one  of  tbe  best  authorities  on  bacteriology  and  vaccine  manufacture 
in  the  United  States  and  he  has  been  employed  for  the  last  ten  years  by 
the  people  of  the  United  States  in  the  U.  S.  Public  Health  Service  at 
Washington,  at  a salary  of  $4,500  per  year,  to  help  to  conserve  the  health 
of  the  people  of  this  land  and  to  give  the  people  the  full  and  real  truth 
on  all  medical  or  health  subjects,  as  far  as  he  can,  and  not  to  give 
them  irrelevant  one-sided  or  half-truths  in  the  interest  of  medical 
doctors  or  medical  manufacturers.  And  yet,  almost  immediately  after 
Dr.  Anderson  had  this  misleading  or  one-sided  report  published,  with  tbe 
title  “Post-Vaccination  Tetanus,”  and  issued  under  the  high  sanction  of 
the  U.  S.  Government  as  being  ostensibly  of  the  highest  authority  for 
whole-hearted  truth  and  accuracy,  to  show  the  real  causes  of  lockjaw 
occurring  after  vaccination,  he  lert  the  employ  of  the  Government  with 
the  salary  of  $4,500,  according  to  the  Evening  Star  of  Washington,  D.  C., 
of  Oct.  20,  1915,  and  entered  the  employ  of  one  of  the  biggest  vaccine 
makers  in  this  country  with  the  gigantic  salary  of  $25,000  per  year ! And, 
while  his  falsely  esteemed  report  is  now  being  used  by  vaccine  manu- 
facturers all  over  this  country  under  the  high  sanction  of  a Govern- 
ment publication  as  being  a full  defense  of  vaccination  from  all  responsi- 
bility for  the  frightfully  frequent  deaths  of  little  school  children  all  ovei 
this  land  from  lockjaw  after  vaccination,  Dr.  Anderson  is  now  presum- 
ably enjoying  his  big  salary  of  $25,000  from  the  big  vaccine  company, 
'to  which  company  and  to  others  in  the  same  trade  his  Government  Re- 
port giving  vaccine  virus  a clean  bill  of  health,  so  far  as  lockjaw  deaths 
are  concerned,  is  obviously,  in  a trade  sense,  worth  many  thousands  of 
dollars ! 


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THE  INVINCIBLE  GUN  AND  THE  VULNERABLE  TARGET 

How  many  thousands  of  dollars  this  report  of  Dr.  Anderson  is 
worth  to  the  different  vaccine  manufacturers  in  this  country,  who  are 
capitalized  with  about  twenty  millions,  I will  leave  to  the  public  con- 
science to  estimate.  And  these  multi-millioned  vaccine  makers,  nine  or 
ten  in  number,  are  now  patting  themselves  and  Dr.  Anderson  on  the 
back  as  having  fully  vindicated  vaccination  from  the  charge  of  child 
slaughter  from  pus  infection  and  lockjaw  combined  because.  forsooth, 
Dr.  Anderson  could  find  no  lockjaw  germ  in  any  virus  he  had  tested 
for  the  last  thirteen  years!  Not  only  are  these  interested  vaccine  cham- 
pions thus  deceiving  themselves  and  the  trusting  public  with  this  out- 
rageously false  logic  and  this  dastardly  evasion  of  the  full  medical  truth, 
but  they  are  also  deluding  trusting  editors  all  over  the  land  into  libeling 
honest  men  who  know  full  well  the  gross  fallacy  of  this  defense  of 
vaccination  and  have  exposed  it  repeatedly.  These  deluded  editors, 
moreover,  are  not  only  libeling  truthful  and  honest  men  who  are  spend- 
ing their  strength  and  fortune  in  this  great  fight  for  medical  Truth  and 
Freedom  against  the  greatest  medical  barbarism  and  oppression  of  the 
age,  viz.,  compulsory  medical  disease  and  death,  but  these  editors  are 
also  showing  how  deeply  they  have  allowed  themselves  to  be  fooled  by 
these  false  and  interested  champions  by  now  foolishly  and  gleefully  tell- 
ing us  (see  p.  20)  that  the  chief  “gun”  of  anti-vaccination  (death  of 
little  school  children  from  lockjaw  during  or  after  vaccination)  has  now- 
been  “spiked,”  by  the  great  Dr.  Anderson  and  his  greater  report ; where- 
as we  have  really  now  been  provided  with  new  and  most  effective  am- 
munition for  the  reloading  of  our  guns.  And  the  vaccine  champions 
have  now  recklessly  offered  themselves  as  a most  shameful  and  vulner- 
able target  on  which  this  ammunition  can  be  used  with  most  telling  effect 
for  the  pubic  exposure  and  condemnation  of  these  champions,  who  have 
such  a big  professional  and  commercial  interest  in  forcing  compulsory 
vaccination  upon  the  people  under  the  most  outrageous  falsehoods  that 
it  is  necessary  for  public  health  and  is  perfectly  safe  and  harmless,  and 
who  are  constantly  denying  and  concealing  the  shocking  truth  in  this 
matter,  which  is  this : — That  general  vaccination  is  now  really  more  dan- 
gerous than  natural  smallpox  and  is  now  killing  more  children  every 
year  than  smallpox  itself. 

AWFUL  SLAUGHTER  OF  SCHOOL  CHILDREN  BY  VACCINA- 
TION AND  LOCKJAW  • 

For  example: — We  have  clear  proof  now  in  hand  of  the  deaths  of 
at  least  thirty  children  from  vaccination  in  1914  in  the  State  of  New 

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York  alone,  more  than  half  of  which  were  from  vaccinal  lockjaw,  while 
there  were  only  three  deaths  from  smallpox  in  the  whole  State  in  the 
same  year!  In  1915  there  were  five  deaths  from  vaccinal  lockjaw  in 
little  school  children  occurring,  in  one  week  alone,  about  the  first  of 
October,  two  of  these  deaths  being  in  Burlington,  N.  J.,  and  three  in 
New  \ork  City!  (See  p.  21.)  Almost  every  mail  brings  notices  of 
similar  deaths  occurring  all  over  the  country.  In  almost  all  those  cases 
the  deaths  are  falsely  denied  by  vaccinators  to  be  in  any  way  due  to 
vaccination  and  the  misleading  report  of  Dr.  Anderson  has  been  braz- 
enly used  as  a full  justification  for  this  falsehood.  See  my  pamphlet, 
“The  Crime  Against  the  School  Child” ; also,  “Vaccination  Results  in 
New  York  State  in  1914,”  by  Mr.  Jas.  A.  Loyster,  of  Cazenovia,  N.  Y. 

LEGAL  SUPPRESSION  AND  PUNISHMENT  OF  CHILD 
SLAUGHTER  CALLED  FOR  AND  REPEAL  OF  ALL  COM- 
PULSORY VACCINATION  DEMANDED. 

Surely,  therefore,  this  barbarous  medical  child-slaughter  now  calls 
loudly  for  criminal  trial  and  punishment  under  our  Penal  Laws  before 
our  courts  and  juries,  as  being  the  only  effective  way  to  properly  deal 
with  it.  Instead  of  your  editors  libeling  the  honest  men  who  are  now 
exposing  this  evil  and  demanding  its  legal  suppression,  they  should  join 
firmly  and  loudly  with  us  in  this  demand,  not  only  for  the  repeal  of  the 
evil  law,  but  for  the  conviction  and  punishment  of  every  coercive  vac- 
cinator guilty  of  this  fatal  medical  malpractice  on  the  most  precious 
possession  of  the  parent  and  the  State,  our  little  school  children!  And 
we  should  repeal  compulsory  vaccination  in  every  shape  and  form  and 
leave  voluntary  vaccination  free  for  every  one  who  desires  it. 

HOW  VACCINE  VIRUS  CAUSES  LOCKJAW  AND  HOW  DR. 
ANDERSON  CONCEALED  THIS  TRUTH 

Now,  when  Dr.  Anderson  wrote  this  much-heralded  but  fallacious 
report  on  the  cause  of  lockjaw  after  vaccination,  he  knew  very  well 
that  it  was  not  at  all  necessary  for  the  lockjaw  germ  to  be  in  the  virus 
itself  to  cause  lockjaw  in  the  vaccinated  child,  and  he  also  knew  very 
well  that  the  virus  always  contains  active  germs  of  the  pus  infections 
which  cause  dangerous  inflammations  and  suppurations ; and  he,  of 
course,  also  knew  that  every  act  of  vaccination  is  nothing  but  a pus 
infection,  pure  and  simple,  which  always  produces  inflammation  and 
suppuration  or  some  form  of  “septicemia”  or  blood  poisoning  in  the 
human  body  and  frequently  kills  directly  from  this  cause  alone ! He 
also  knew  that  lockjaw  cannot  develop  in  the  human  body  except  in  a 

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pus  infected  or  suppurating  wound,  such  as  a vaccination  sore,  or  its 
equivalent,  and  that  the  lockjaw  germ  is  so  widely  diffused  in  some 
localities  in  this  country  (particularly  on  Long  Island  and  in  New  York 
State  generally)  that  it  is  not  only  in  the  soil,  but  on  domestic  animals 
and  in  the  entire  habitat  or  surroundings  of  vaccinated  persons  and— 
please  note  this  striking  fact — even  frequently  exists  directly  upon  or 
within  the  bodies  of  many  healthy  persons ! 

We  therefore  do  not  have  to  go  far  away  from,  or  even  outside  of. 
the  body  of  the  vaccinated  child  itself,  to  find  the  lockjaw  germ  ever 
ready  to  do  its  deadly  work,  provided  the  pus  infection  of  the  vaccina- 
tion comes  along  first  to  ignite  or  “activate”  this  widelv  diffused,  nor- 
mally harmless  and  inactive  but  potentially  deadly  germ.  (See  Dr. 
Edward  Francis,  “Laboratory  Studies  on  Tetanus,”  Bulletin  95,  U.  S. 
Hygienic  Laboratory,  August,  1914;  Pages  8,  9,  11,  32,  41,  48,  49,  62.) 

Dr.  Anderson  was  therefore  fully  aware  that  it  was  the  pus  infec- 
tion always  carried  by  vaccine  virus  that  is  really  the  primarily  danger- 
ous element  and  the  igniting  or  “activating”  cause  of  the  fatal  develop- 
ment of  the  normally  harmless  lockjaw  germ  wherever  this  “activating” 
pus  infection  comes  in  contact  with  the  lockjaw  germ  within  or  upon 
the  human  body,  where  it  commonly  exists  ! Dr.  Anderson,  I say,  knew 
very  well  that  the  pus  infection  was  just  like  a spark  to  gunpowder  and 
that  the  lockjaw  germs  were  like  the  gunpowder — perfectly  harmless 
and  inactive  until  touched  with  the  igniting  and  exploding  pus  infection. 
Dr.  Anderson,  I repeat,  knew'  all  these  shocking  facts — which  show  the 
most  common,  frequent  and  dangerous  ways  in  which  vaccine  virus 
causes  fatal  lockjaw  or  tetanus,  although  there  might  not  be  a single 
tetanus  germ  in  the  virus  itself — and  yet  he  never  said  a word  in  his 
report  about  this  most  essential  fact  for  the  real  enlightenment  of  the 
suffering  public  against  the  great  dangers  to  human  health  and  life 
always  existing  from  vaccination  and  lockjaw  in  combination,  a fatal 
danger,  particularly  for  little  children  which  is  absolutely  and  constantly 
at  least  ten  times  greater  than  the  natural  danger  from  smallpox!  But. 
per  contra,  Dr.  Anderson  is  now  presumably  enjoying  his  reported  big 
salary  of  $25,000  in  the  employ  of  the  million  dollar  vaccine  company  in 
an  adjoining  State  (E.  R.  Squibb  & Sons,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.),  and 
the  virus  makers  all  over  the  country  are  now  using  his  shameful  mis- 
leading report  (misleading  by  irrelevancy  and  by  gross  omission  and 
concealment)  as  a full  justification  of  their  most  dangerous  product  of 
pus  infections,  which  is  forced  on  our  little  school  children  in  the  false 
name  of  public  health  as  a condition  for  the  exercise  of  the  highest 
constitutional  right  of  the  child,  Education,  and  as  being  perfectly  safe 

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and  harmless,  whereas  it  is  potentially  most  dangerous  and  is  really 
killing  them,  as  we  have  repeatedly  proved,  by  scores  and  hundreds  all 
qver  this  land  by  lockjaw  and  other  septic  infections,  both  as  a direct 
and  an  indirect  result  of  the  operation  of  vaccination  and  the  injeetion 
on  this  virus ! And  our  vaccinating  doctors  and  health  officials  are  con- 
stantly denying  and  concealing  these  deaths  in  death  certificates,  medical 
reports  and  vital  statistics  throughout  this  State  in  a most  shameful 
manner,  which  loudly  calls  for  a full  public  exposure  ^nd  punishment 
from  some  proper  tribunal  in  this  State.  See  pamphlets  referred  t®  on 
page  11.  (See  also  pages  20  and  21,  28,  29.) 

CONCLUSION 

Now,  in  all  this  arraignment  of  the  false  defenses  of  vaccination  I 
am  merely  stating  facts,  and  I will  leave  your  editors  and  the  editors  of 
our  other  papers  in  New  York  and  elsewhere  to  express  their  own 
opinion  of  Dr.  Anderson  and  his  work  in  the  said  Report  and  the  wis- 
dom of  your  own  mistaken  and  libelous  adoption  of  it  as  being  the 
very  gospel  of  disinterested  medical  truth  and  accuracy,  notwithstanding 
the  full  information  on  this  subject  that  I had  previously  laid  before  you 
in  my  big  advertisement  in  your  columns  of  June  29th,  1914. 

In  closing  I will  say  that  I first  learned  of  your  libelous  article 
while  on  my  summer  vacation  and,  as  soon  as  possible  thereafter,  I 
wrote  to  your  advertising  agent,  Mr.  H.  P.  Meany,  through  whom  I 
had  placed  my  advertisements  in  The  Tribune,  calling  his  attention  to 
this  libel  and  stating  that  I would  take  legal  action  thereon  in  due  time 
and,  in  the  meantime,  asking  for  some  information  about  your  Mr. 
Adams  and  Dr.  Power,  the  authors  of  the  libels  complained  of.  This 
letter  to  Mr.  Meany  was  sent  by  registered  mail  to  your  office  but  was 
returned  to  me  by  the  Post  Office  about  two  weeks  later  as  unclaimed 
and  not  found  at  this  address  or  at  several  private  addresses  where  the 
. carrier  had  tried  to  find  Mr.  Meany.  As  your  Mr.  Meany  does  not, 
therefore,  now  seem  to  be  within  reach  by  mail  I herewith  send  you  the 
original  of  this  letter  addressed  to  him  as  your  agent,  which  you  can 
now  regard  as  addressed  to  yourselves. 

I regret  this  delay  of  a few  months  in  making  this  legal  demand 
upon  you  for  correction  of  the  libel  complained  of,  but  it  was  impossible 
to  take  up  this  matter  until  after  my  permanent  return  to  town  and 
until  after  I had  disposed  of  several  pressing  matters  in  the  course  of 
the  last  month. 

I also  regret  that  it  has  required  so  much  space  to  properly  treat 
this  matter,  but  the  subject  of  vaccination  in  its  various  phases  is  such 

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a complex  one  and  has  been  so  overlaid  and  underlaid  with  medical 
falsehoods  that  it  requires  some  time  and  patience  to  unravel  the  clear 
threads  of  truth  from  the  tangle  of  falsehoods  in  which  the  truth  has 
been  concealed  by  many  of  our  so-called  high  authorities,  interested  in 
so  concealing  it.  I also  wished  to  give  you  the  facts  so  fully  and 
clearly  that  you  could  not  fail  to  be  convinced  of  the  libelous  errors 
and  wrongs  already  committed  and  to  be  able  to  make  the  full,  proper 
and  honorable  amend  and  thus  avoid,  if  possible,  the  necessity  of  my 
resorting  to  the  courts  for  redress,  to  which  I certainly  shall  resort  if 
this  amendment  is  not  fully  and  properly  made  and  with  reasonable 
promptitude. 

I shall  therefore  await  your  responsive  answer  to  this  letter  before 
taking  further  proceedings. 

Yours  very  truly, 

CHAS.  M.  HIGGINS, 

Treasurer  Anti-Vaccination  League  of  America,  and  Member  National 

League  for  Medical  Freedom. 

271  Ninth  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

December  15,  1915. 


SUITS  AGAINST  THE  TRIBUNE  AND  DR.  POWER 

After  waiting  a reasonable  time  for  an  answer  to  the  above  letter 
and  for  a proper  retraction  of  the  libel  complained  of  and  satisfaction 
for  the  wrong  committed,  a reply  was  received  from  the  attorney  for 
The  Tribune,  under  date  of  January  4th,  1916,  which,  however,  was 
evasive  and  non-committal  on  the  essential  point  whether  The  Tribune 
would  or  would  not  make  the  proper  retraction  and  satisfaction  de- 
manded in  this  matter.  I therefore  promptly  notified  the  said  attorney 
by  letter  dated  January  6th,  1916,  that,  as  his  answer  was  entirely  un- 
responsive to  my  just  demands  upon  The  Tribune  for  retraction  of  its 
libel  and  correction  of  the  wrong  done  to  me  arid  my  cause,  I had  now 
directed  my  lawyer,  Hon.  Charles  F.  Murphy,  of  50  Church  Street, 
New  York  City,  to  enter  suits  for  libel  against  The  Tribune  and  Dr. 

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William  T.  Power  jointly  and  for  breach  of  advertising  contract  against 
The  Tribune,  which  suits  will  be  duly  prosecuted  to  the  legal  end. 

DEFENSE  OF  PUBLIC  TRUTH  AtfD  REPROOF  OF  PUBLIC 
FALSEHOOD  NECESSARY 

As  the  libels  herein  exposed,  together  with  the  misleading  report  of 
Dr.  Anderson  partly  involved  in  said  libels,  have  had  a most  extensive 
circulation  in  the  public  press  and  have  been  used  to  defame  and  mis- 
represent the  work  of  our  League  and  the  motives  and  acts  of  its 
officers  and  members,  and  to  falsify  the  facts  as  to  the  true  relation  of 
vaccination  to  lockjaw,  to  the  great  injury  of  public  truth  and  right  on 
most  important  questions  of  public  health,  I have  therefore  thought  it 
proper  and  necessary  to  now  publish  this  protest  to  The  Tribune,  as  a 
public  pamphlet  for  general  circulation  to  offset  the  evil  influences  of 
these  libels,  errors  and  misrepresentations,  and  to  give  the  public  the 
full  medical  and  statistical  truth  on  this  important  matter  and  to  expose 
the  shameful  manner  in  which  the  public  mind  has  been  deceived  by 
the  general  false  idea  inculcated  by  these  publications  that  vaccination 
is  perfectly  or  practically  safe  and  harmless  and  that  this  operation,  and 
the  virus  used  therein,  never  causes  serious  diseases,  infections  or  death 
and  is  not  responsible  for  the  many  deaths  from  lockjaw,  both  directly 
and  indirectly,  which  are  occurring  constantly  all  over  this  land  in 
vaccinated  school  children. 


ABSTRACT  OF  THE  TRIBUNE  LIBELS  AND  GIST  OF  THE 
WORK  AND  PURPOSE  OF  OUR  LEAGUE  CONTRASTED 

To  give  a clear  idea  of  the  false,  stupid  and  malicious  nature  of  the 
libels  uttered  by  The  Tribune  and  the  true  scope  and  nature  of  the  un- 
selfish work  done  by  our  League,  for  Public  Truth  and  Right  against 
the  great  medical  evil  of  compulsory  vaccination,  I now  give  the  follow- 
ing brief  extracts  from  The  Tribune’s  “Ad-Visor”  editorial,  and  in 
contrast  with  this  an  extract  from  one  of  our  big  advertisements  in 
The  Tribune  and  other  papers  under  date  of  June  15th,  1914,  which 
gives  an  epitome  of  the  great  subject  covered  by  our  whole  series  of 

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articles  (12  in  all)  extending  over  several  months  and  occupying  sev- 
eral columns  in  each  issue  which  cost  us  over  twenty  thousand  dollars. 

(From  The  Tribune  of  June  28th,  1915) 

“AD-VISOR” 

“Conducted  by  Samuel  Hopkins  Adams” 

“This  department  is  devoted  to  separating  the  sheep  of  advertising  from  the 
goats — and  hanging  a bell  on  the  goats.” 

******** 

“The  appearance  in  The  Tribune  of  the  vicious  advertisement  of  the  Anti- 
Vaccination  League  of  America,  reeking  with  untruths,  must  have  come  with 
a great  shock  to  all  like  myself  who  have . acclaimed  with  • enthusiasm  the  high 
standard  of  truthfulness  recently  adopted  by  your  excellent  paper.  I should  like 
to  ask  how  your  Mr.  Samuel  Hopkins  Adams  can  defend  your  publication  of  such 
intentional  mis-statement.” 

“WILLIAM  T.  POWER,  M.  D.” 

“Herein  is  raised  an  interesting  and  difficult  question  in  the  ethics  of  journal- 
ism ; how  far  should  a newspaper  censor  the  arguments  of  propaganda  adver- 
tising? In  my  own  opinion,  the  campaign  of  the  anti-vaccinationists  makes  for 
ignorance,  suffering,  and  a higher  death-rate.”  * * * 

Now,  in  contrast  with  this  stupid  libel  of  our  work  I annex  the 
following  extract  from  one  of  our  big  advertisements  published  in  The 
Tribune  and  other  papers  of  June  15th,  1914,  which  speaks  for  itself  as 
to  the  true  and  beneficial  character  of  otir  work  for  the  public  good, 
which  we  are  now  content  to  leave  to  the  impartial  judgment  of  all 
honest  citizens  not  professionally  interested  in  any  way  in  the  business 
of  vaccination  : — 

“All  this  vaccination  fanaticism  of  which  our  little  school  children  are  made 
the  suffering  victims  is  done  under  the  old  medical  superstition — which,  by  the 
way,  is  very  profitable  to  the  vaccinating  profession — that  frequent  and  general 
vaccination  is  necessary  to  protect  our  children  from  the  great  alleged  danger  of 
infection  and  death  from  smallpox ; whereas,  it  is  easily  proved  from  the  vital 
statistics  of  this  State,  which  are  open  and  public  every  year,  that  there  is  regu- 
larly more  danger  of  being  struck  by  lightning  than  of  being  killed  by  smallpox, 
and  that  this  slight  danger  from  smallpox  is  least  of  all  in  children  of  school 
age  who  are  most  naturally  immune  to  smallpox  and  all  other  causes  of  death  in 
general,  and  who  actually  show  only  5 per  cent,  of  the  total  deaths  from  all 
causes  although  they  constitute  25  per  cent,  of  the  whole  population ! 

“On  the  other  hand,  it  can  be  readily  proved  from  death  certificates  and 
other  data  not  published  but  now  concealed  by  our  Health  Departments  in  this 
City  and  State  (all  dominated  and  controlled  by  vaccinating  doctors)  that  there 
are  actually  more  deaths  caused  every  year  in  this  City  and  State  from  Lockjaw 
and  Septicemia  in  Vaccination  Wounds  than  from  natural  smallpox  and  par- 
ticularly in  children,  even  two  or  three  times  more  in  some  years ! And  I now 
again  challenge  our  Health  Departments  in  this  City  and  State  to  deny  or  dis- 
prove this  solemn,  shocking  and  fearless  statement  of  medical  and  statistical  truth 
if  they  can  or  dare.  And  if  they  shall  dare  deny  it  I then  challenge  them  to 
allow  a free  and  open  inspection  of  our  death  certificates  and  vital  records  by  a 
thoroughly  representative,  able  and  disinterested  Committee  of  Citizens  to  estab- 
lish the  truth  or  error  of  my  statement  in  a public  manner. 

******** 

“The  whole  purpose  of  these  articles  is  to  enlighten  the  public  mind  as  to 

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the  facts  about  vaccination,  to  refute  old  and  dangerous  medical  falsehoods  and 
false  statistics,  and  to  leave  all  voluntary  vaccination  perfectly  free  for  every 
o\ie  who  desires  it  or  believes  it  to  be  good  or  necessary  for  health,  public  or 
private,  but  to  restrain  and  prohibit  all  compulsory  vaccination  in  every  shape 
and  form  as  violative  of  most  sacred  and  fundamental  human  rights  and  most 
dangerous  to  public  health  and  human  life  and  profitable  only  to  vaccinating 
doctors  and  vaccine  manufacturers.” 

I now  think  that  our  fellow  citizens  will  generally  agree  with  us 
that  our  libelers  and  defamers  will  find  it  very  difficult  indeed  to  show 
before  any  court  and  jury  in  this  State  how  our  work,  as  expressed 
in  this  epitome,  is  in  any  way  “vicious,”  “reeking  with  untruth,”  or 
“intentionally  misleading,”  or  how  it  “makes  for  ignorance,  suffering 
and  a higher  death-rate.” 

AUTHORS  OF  THE  LIBELS  PROFESSIONALLY  INTERESTED 
IN,  OR  BIASED  FOR,  VACCINATION 

I have  been  informed  that  the  authors  of  the  libels  complained  of. 
Mr.  Samuel  Hopkins  Adams  and  Dr.  William  T.  Power,  are  both  mem- 
bers of  the  American  Medical  Association,  which  is  the  largest  medical 
society  in  the  United  States,  consisting  of  at  least  forty  thousand  mem- 
bers! If  this  information  is  correct  it  would  suggest  a probable  animus 
bias  and  interest  inspiring  the  said  libels  and  the  false  attack  upon  the 
members  and  work  of  our  League  because  this  gigantic  medical  society 
is  the  greatest  stronghold  of  the  vaccination  practice  in  the  country  and 
is  a rigid  advocate  of.  our  evil  compulsory  vaccination  laws,  and  it  also 
publishes  a medical  journal  with  a large  circulation  among  vaccinating 
doctors  which  is  partly  supported  by  the  extensive  advertisements  of 
many  vaccine  makers.  The  members  of  this  gigantic  society  have  there- 
fore a positive  professional  interest  in  forcing  compulsory  vaccination 
upon  the  people  and  in  denying  and  concealing  from  the  public,  so  far 
as  they  can,  all  injuries  and  deaths  from  this  evil  medical  practice. 
And  this  denial  and  concealment  is  not  only  very  extensive  but  is  easily 
accomplished  because  members  of  this  and  similar  medical  societies  in 
this  and  other  states  practically  control  all  our  health  departments, 
medical  reports,  death  certificates  and  vital  statistics  and  can  conceal 
from  the  public  mind  with  great  ease  and  safety  the  true  medical  and 
statistical  facts  as  to  the  deaths  from  vaccination  which  are  constantly 
occurring  all  over  this  country. 

DEATHS  FROM  VACCINATION  DENIED  AND  CONCEALED 

ABLE  LAYMEN  MUST  BE  PLACED  AT  HEAD  OF  OUR  DE- 
PARTMENTS OF  HEALTH  AND  VITAL  STATISTICS,  AS  IN 
ENGLAND,  TO  OFFSET  DANGEROUS  MEDICAL  POWER 
NOW  IN  CONTROL. 

* It  is  therefore  obvious  that  there  is  now  a most  dangerous  medical 

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power,  not  only  in  control  of  our  medical  practice  but  also  in  full  con- 
trol of  our  vital  statistics,  by  which  control  they  can  easily  conceal  any 
of  their  dangerous  or  fatal  medical  mistakes  at  any  time.  And  it  surely 
must  be  evident  now  to  every  thoughtful  layman  that  a radical  reform 
should  be  at  once  established  in  this  matter  by  placing  eminent  and 
able  laymen  at  the  heads  of  all  our  Departments  of  Health  and  Vital 
Statistics,  who  would  have  no  selfish  interest  in  medical  practices  or  any 
professional  bias  to  conceal  medical  mistakes  or  disasters  from  the 
public,  but,  per  contra,  would  have  only  public  interest  at  heart  to  give 
the  full  medical  and  statistical  truth  to  the  people  in  all  our  medical 
records  and  vital  statistics.  This  reform  system  has  existed  in  England 
for  many  years,  where  the  Minister  of  Health  and  Registrar  General 
are  both  eminent  laymen  and  under  this  system  the  vital  statistics  of 
Great  Britain  are  known  to  be  the  most  full  and  reliable  in  the  world 
and  they  honestly  publish  every  year  many  deaths  from  vaccination, 
which  shows  frequently  a higher  annual  mortality  than  smallpox ! 
Whereas  in  our  country,  where  our  health  departments  are  controlled 
by  vaccinating  doctors,  this  corresponding  annual  mortality  from  vac- 
cination is  entirely  concealed  by  being  entered  under  the  heads  of  other 
diseases  such  as  “Tetanus/'  “Septicemia,"  “Endocarditis,"  “Menin- 
gitis," etc.,  these  specific  diseases  being  the  terminal,  secondary  or  con- 
sequent diseases  in  which  the  primary  disease  of  vaccination  resulted 
but  which  is  thus  concealed  from  the  public  by  this  deceptive  statistical 
device. 

HOW  PRESS  AND  PUBLIC  HAVE  BEEN  DECEIVED  BY 
DR.  ANDERSON'S  FALSE  DEFENSE  OF  VACCINATION 

I will  now  show  how  the  Press  and  the  Public  have  been  widely 
and  grossly  deceived  by  Dr.  Anderson’s  false  defense  of  vaccination, 
which  is  virtually  this: — that  because  he  could  not  detect  lockjaw  germs 
in  any  sample  of  virus  which  he  tested,  therefore  vaccination  never 
causes  lockjaw  or  is  not  responsible  for  causing  it.  I will  now  give 
some  characteristic  specimens  of  this  editorial  deception  and  credulity 
from  the  editorial  pages  of  our  leading  metropolitan  dailies  which  will 
show  that,  if  the  supposedly  sharp  and  high  class  editors  of  our  leading 
papers  are  so  easily  and  stupidly  fooled  by  these  medical  falsehoods 
or  fallacies  coming  from  high  places  and  so-called  high  authorities,  how 
much  easier  it  must  be  for  the  average  trusting  public  to  be  so  deceived ! 
When  our  press  leaders  in  thought  and  information  are  themselves  so 
easily  misled  and  in  turn  mislead  their  trusting  readers,  it  is  surely 
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dfise  of  the  blind  editor  leading  the  blind  public  and  both  tumbling  to- 
gether into  the  ditch  of  medical  falsehood,  to  the  great  ultimate  benefit, 
however,  of  the  gigantic  vaccine  and  medical  organizations  who  ob- 
viously profit  greatly  by  widespread  and  enforced  vaccination  and  whose 
interest  it  is  to  maintain  such  falsehoods  or  half-truths  as  long  as  pos- 
sible, and  who  thus  get  a gigantic  advertisement  of  their  business  from 
these  befooled  papers,  worth  tens  of  thousands  of  dollars,  without  cost- 
ing them  a cent ! 

Let  us  now  look  at  the  following  rich  samples  of  false  medical 
advertising,  given  freely  and  unconsciously  by  some  of  our  much  be- 
fooled editors  without  costing  the  medical  beneficiaries  a penny!  Surely 
this  must  be  interesting  to  some  of  our  advertising  experts  and  hunters 
of  medical  frauds,  like  Mr.  Samuel  Hopkins  Adams,  for  instance,  and 
his  “Ad-Visor”  column  in  The  Tribune. 

(Editorial  from  New  York  Tribune,  July  27th,  1915) 
“VACCINATION  AND  TETANUS” 

“If  there  were  any  reason  to  confide  in  the  good  faith  and  candor  of  the 
anti-vaccinists  it  might  be  hoped  that  one  of  their  favorite  arguments  had  been 
finally  disposed  of  by  Dr.  John  F.  Anderson’s  inquiry  into  the  occurrence  of 
tetanus  after  vaccination  for  smallpox.  Such  success  as  they  have  had  is  at- 
tributable in  large  measure  to  the  skill  with  which  they  have  played  upon  the 
apprehensions  of  timid  persons,  and  to  this  end  they  have  made  much  use  of  the 
various  accidents  that  have  occasionally  followed  vaccination  as  a consequence  of 
impurities  in  the  virus,  'faulty  technique  or  subsequent  infection.  The  mischief  is 
that  there  have  been  a considerable  number  of  such  accidents,  and  an  unscrupu- 
lous critic  can  easily  establish  a case  plausible  enough  to  convince  the  ignorant 
whose  fears  and  prejudices  they  are  accustomed  to  appeal  to.  It  is  true  that  as 

good  a case  might  be  made  against  the  practice  of  surgery,  but  that  is  a point 

deliberately  overlooked  by  the  anti-vaccinists.  t 

“Dr.  Anderson’s  inquiry  was  carried  on  for  thirteen  years.  He,  or  his  assist- 
ants of  the  United  States  Public  Health  Service,  examined  specimens  of  vaccine 
virus  sufficient  to  protect  two  million  persons,  and  in  no  instance  was  the  organ- 
ism of  tetanus  detected.  * * * * 

“It  is  not  to  be  expected-  that  Dr.  Anderson’s  reasoning  will  have  the  slight- 
est effect  on  the  opponents  of  vaccination.  Far  more  likely  is  it  that  they  will 
contrive  to  turn  it  to  their  own  account  if  by  any  sort  of  trickery  they  can  do 
so.  Some  years  ago  Dr.  Rosenau  published  the  regults  of  an  elaborate  inquiry 
into  the  bacterial  contamination  of  dry-points  and  glycerinated  tubes,  and  as  far 
as  tetanus  was  concerned  his  conclusion  was  substantially  the  same  as  Dr.  Ander- 
son’s. But  though  he  made  this  perfectly  clear,  and  stated  specifically  that  hav- 
ing examined  many  specimens  he  and  his  assistants  were  “unable  to  find  the  or- 
ganism of  this  disease,”  yet  by  gross  and  deliberate  perversion  of  his  words 
some  leading  anti-vaccinists  have  made  it  appear  that  his  opinion  was  the  direct 
contrary  and  have  repeatedly  misquoted  him  by  way  of  supporting  their  own 
mischievous  arguments.” 

Special  Note: — Dr.  Rosenau’s  work  above  referred  to  was  dated 
as  long  ago  as  1903,  and  he  then  clearly  showed  the  great  danger  of 

t Note  the  logical  confusion  and  fallacy  in  this  reasoning.  Surgery  is  applied 
to  a person  already  diseased  to  remedy  the  disease  or  defect.  In  vaccination  a 
dangerous  disease  is  deliberately  and  needlessly  inflicted  on  a person  who  is 
perfectly  healthy. — C.  M.  H. 


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lockjaw  infection  through  vaccine  virus  unless  the  greatest  care  was 
taken  in  its  preparation  to  exclude  the  lockjaw  germs.  In  his  latest 
work,  “Preventive  Medicine  and  Hygiene,”  1914,  he  says  at  page  19 : — 
‘Tetanus  (in  vaccination)  deserves  a special  word.  Several  outbreaks 
have  been  reported  in  this  country  after  the  use  of  certain  viruses. 
Willson  in  1902  found  tetanus  spores  in  the  vaccine  virus  used  in  a 
New  Jersey  outbreak.  Glycerine  (in  the  virus)  does  not  destroy  the 
tetanus  spores.  Many  hundreds  of  examinations  made  in  the  Hygienic 
Laboratory  at  Washington  have  failed  to  discover  a tetanus  spore  in  a 
-ingle  vaccine  point  or  tube.  The  occasional  danger  cannot  be  denied. 
It  is  probable,  however,  that  the  infection  in  some  of  these  cases  comes 
from  outside  sources.”  At  page  69  Dr.  Rosenau  says : — “Tetanus 
sometimes  occurs  as  a complication  of  vaccination.  It  is  not  clear  in 
these  cases  whether  the  tetanus  spores  are  contained  in  the  vaccine 
virus  or  subsequently  enter  the  wound.”  C.  M.  H. 

(Editorial  from  The  New  York  World,  July  26th,  1915) 

“NO  LOCKJAW  BY  VACCINATION” 

“The  largest  gun  in  the  battery  of  the  anti-vaccinationists  is  spiked  by  Dr. 
lohn  F.  Anderson,  Director  of  the  United  States  Public  Health  Service.  In  a 
report  made  up  from  the  results  of  thirteen  years  of  careful  investigation,  Dr. 
Anderson  asserts  that  no  case  of  lockjaw  has  ever  been  caused  by  smallpox  vac- 
cine virus.  Invariably,  where  tetanus  has  followed  vaccination  it  has  come  from 
infection  of  the  wound. 

“This  conclusion  agrees  with  that  reached  through  routine  experience  by  the 
Health  Department  of  New  York.  Last  year,  Dr.  Goldwater  reports,  physicians 
of  the  Health  Department  vaccinated  70,000  pupils  registered  in  the  parochial 
schools,  and  not  a case  of  illness  resulted. 

“Dr.  Anderson’s  report  will  set  at  rest  many  minds  disturbed  by  the  false 
stories  of  a connection  between  lockjaw  and  vaccination.  It  will  not  dispose 
permanently  and  completely  of  the  ‘antis.’  These  persons  have  the  blindness  and 
stubbornness  of  their  prejudices,  and  will  continue  to  be,  so  far  as  they  are  able, 
obstacles  to  the  compulsory  and  beneficent  practice  of  the  great  saving  principle 
discovered  by  Jenner.”  *********** 

THE  BOARD  OF  HEALTH  ANSWERED  AND  CHALLENGED 

In  answer  to  this  absurd  and  dishonest  statement  of  the  perfect 
harmlessness  of  vaccination  to  children,  made  by  the  Board  of  Health 
of  New  York  City,  which  please  note  is  actually  engaged  in  the  business 
of  making  and  selling  vaccine  virus,  I will  simply  say  here  that  the 
great  English  Commission  on  Vaccination  in  its  Report  in  1896  ad- 
mitted a ratio  of  vaccination  deaths  as  high  as  one  death  in  14,159 
vaccinations,  so  that  on  this  basis  the  70,000  vaccinations  above  referred 
:o  would  call  for  about  five  deaths ! The  Reports  of  the  Registrar- 
General  of  England  for  seven  recent  years,  1900  to  1906,  show  that  the 
average  deaths  from  vaccination  were  nearly  four  for  every  one  hun- 

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dred  thousand  children  vaccinated,  so  that  at  this  later  ratio  the  70,000 
vaccinations  made  by  the  New  York  Board  of  Health  would  call  for 
about  three  deaths ! Now  does  any  person  of  common  sense  suppose 
that  the  Health  Department,  after  constantly  falsely  asserting  that  vac- 
cination is  perfectly  safe  and  harmless,  would  officially  acknowledge  any 
case  of  injury  or  death  in  any  child  caused  by  the  usd  of  the  virus  made 
by  itself  and  injected  into  the  body  of  the  victim  by  one  of  its  own 
doctors?  If  it  made  any  such  official  admission  it  would  confess  itself 
at  once  liable  to  civil  and  criminal  suits.  It,  of  course,  has  an  official 
bias  and  interest  to  deny  and  conceal  all  such  cases  and  does  not  dare 
to  accept  my  public  challenge  on  this  point  that  more  children  are 
killed  every  year  by  vaccination  than  by  smallpox.  As  I have  said  else- 
where, it  would  therefore  be  about  as  reasonable  to  accept  an  exculpa- 
tory report  from  the  assassin  Czolgosz  on  the  killing  of  President  Mc- 
Kinley as  to  accept  a report  on  a vaccination  death  from  vaccinating 
doctors  who,  in  such  case,  would  be  simply  reporting  on  their  own 
acts,  and  acting  as  judge  and  jury  in  their  own  case,  which  report 
would  of  course  be  utterly  worthless  in  a moral,  logical  or  judicial 
sense. 

An  emphatic  and  recent  instance  of  this  shocking  fact  at  our  very 
doors  is  here  given,  viz. : — Three  little  children,  all  about  six  years  old. 
were  killed  by  vaccinal  lockjaw  in  New  York  City,  in  one  week  alone, 
about  October  1st,  1915,  these  three  cases  resulting  from  vaccinations 
made  by  health  board  doctors  with  virus  made  by  the  Board  of  Health. 
The  names  of  these  child  victims  and  the  addresses  of  their  parents 
follow : — 

Dorothy  Klemm,  148  Smart  Ave.,  Flushing,  N.  Y. 

Martha  Markusson,  766  41st  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Eleanor  Fredericks,  Fort  Wadsworth,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y. 

The  Health  Department  has  brazenly  denied  that  the  vaccination 
or  the  virus  was  in  any  way  responsible  for  these  deaths  and  this  is  a 
common  specimen  of  the  brazen  denials  and  false  defences  made  by 
vaccinators  as  to  the  harmlessness  of  vaccination,  which  calls  for  a thor- 
ough public  investigation  and  rebuke. 

In  this  very  same  week  two  more  children  were  killed  in  the  nearby 
State  of  New  Jersey  from  the  same  cause,  thus  making  five  deaths  in 
one  week  from  vaccinal  lockjaw!  These  fourth  and  fifth  victims  were 
two  little  boys  5 and  7 years  old,  the  precious  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  Perks  of  Burlington,  N.  J.,  who  were  vaccinated  by  their  family 
doctor  with  virus  made  by  the  H.  K.  Mulford  Co.  of  Philadelphia. 
In  these  five  cases  both  the  Mulford  Co.  and  our  own  Board  of  Health 

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have  boldly  used  Dr.  Anderson’s  Report  to  try  to  show  that  the  virus 
or  the  vaccination  was  not  responsible  or  blamable  for  these  deaths, 
which  is,  of  course,  a most  shocking  denial  and  evasion  of  the  real 
truth  which  should  have  the  most  searching  public  examination  and  con- 
demnation. And  surely  it  is  high  time  that  all  this  awful  and  needless 
child  slaughter  caused  by  a most  barbarous  medical  fanaticism,  which  is 
going  on  all  over  this  country,  should  be  stopped  by  proper  legal  action, 
civil  or  criminal. 


EDITORIAL  FROM  THE  BROOKLYN  EAGLE 

In  The  Brooklyn  Eagle  of  July  29th,  1915,  there  appeared  this  little 
editorial  gem  of  gross  medical  falsification  and  unconscious  editorial 
deception  and  credulity,  as  follows : — 

“Uncle  Sam’s  medical  experts  decide  that  vaccination  never  produces  lock- 
jaw. So  the  relative  volubility  of  the  foes  of  vaccination  is  still  unexplained.” 


EDITORIAL  DUPES  CRITICISED 

It  will  thus  be  seen  that  the  editorials  just  quoted  from  three  great 
daily  papers  of  New  York  City,  having  a tremendous  combined  circula- 
tion, actually  take  it  for  granted  and  settled  that  Dr.  Anderson’s  mis- 
leading report  is  a clear  and  positive  proof  that  vaccination  never 
causes  lockjaw  and  that  the  honest  and  accurate  anti-vaccinists  who 
have  repeatedly  demonstrated  the  falsehood  of  this  stupid  and  dangerous 
proposition  are  nothing  but  tricksters,  deliberate  falsifiers  and  deceivers 
of  the  public  mind,  whereas  the  very  reverse  or  “vice  versa”  of  this 
grossly  false  and  libelous  statement  is  the  actual  truth.  And  it  will  be 
noted  that  the  befooled  editors  go  even  farther  in  this  falsehood  than 
Dr.  Anderson  himself,  as  Dr.  Anderson  has  not  dared  to  actually  say 
that  lockjaw  is  never  caused  by  vaccination,  directly  or  indirectly,  as 
he  knows  too  much  to  utter  such  an  unmitigated  falsehood  as  that; 
nevertheless  his  report  is  misleading  and  one-sided  enough  to  not  only 
give  the  general  public  but  our  brightest  editors  the  idea  that  this  is 
what  his  Report  really  means,  as  we  have  just  proved  by  the  editorials 
now  quoted. 

Instead,  therefore,  of  these  befooled  editors  accepting  the  clear 
facts  and  demonstrations  of  the  honest  and  accurate  men  who  oppose 
the  barbarous  evil  of  compulsory  vaccination,  forced  on  our  little  school 
children  at  great  cost  to  their  health  and  life,  and  who  have  no  interest 
in  this  subject  whatever  except  to  give  the  public  the  demonstrable  and 

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unbiased  truth  and  save  the  health  and  life  of  our  most  precious  chil- 
dren, at  great  cost  of  labor  and  expense  to  themselves,  yet  our  fallacy- 
gulping  editors  put  all  this  unbiased,  demonstrated  and  obvious  truth  be- 
hind them  and  not  only  accept  but  also  distort  and  exaggerate  the  false 
and  stupid  argument  of  a so-called  high  authority,  who  has  a big  pro- 
fessional interest  in  defending  vaccination  from  all  blame  and  concealing 
its  great  evils  and  dangers  as  long  and  as  far  as  he  can,  and  who  now 
gets  a gigantic  salary  in  the  employ  of  this  gigantic  medical  interest  for 
serving  its  interests,  as  I have  already  shown. 

A WORD  TO  THE  BROOKLYN  EAGLE 

The  neat  little  editorial  quoted  from  The  Brooklyn  Eagle  is  such 
a gem  of  unconscious  medical  falsification  and  editorial  deception  that  it 
deserves  a few  special  words  here,  and  I must  say  now,  with  real  sym- 
pathy, that  while  I regret  very  much  to  see  my  editorial  friends  of  my 
home  paper  so  badly  misled  as  to  really  think  that  “Uncle  Sam’s  medical 
experts,”  in  the  person  of  Dr.  Anderson,  have  really  proved  that  “Vac- 
cination never  produces  lockjaw,”  yet  I think  I can  easily  enlighten  the 
editor  and  help  him  out  of  his  darkness  on  one  point  where  he  so  neatly 
and  almost  wittily  says,  “So  the  relative  volubility  of  the  foes  of  vaccin- 
ation is  still  unexplained.”  Now,  this  Eagle  phrase  of  “relative  volu- 
bility” is  “good”  as  Shakespeare  would  say — very  good,  indeed — and 
fortunately  it  is  also  very  easily  explained.  This  “relative  volubility” 
is  surely  readily  explained  by  one  of  the  simplest  and  most  obvious 
laws  of  mendacity  which  is  this,  viz. : — that  any  accomplished  liar  can 
readily  squeeze  the  biggest  and  most  dastardly  kind  of  a lie  into  a few 
words,  which  may  require  the  “volubility”  of  a whole  chapter  of  words 
from  a truthful  man  to  properly  refute.  This  law  is  also  illustrated  by 
the  old  saying  that  “a  lie  can  run  around  the  world  while  Truth  is 
pulling  on  his  boots.”  But,  having  now  put  on  the  pursuing  boots  of 
truth  with  their  sharp  spikes  of  undeniable  fact  and  impregnable  logic, 
I think  it  can  be  now  acknowledged  by  our  heretofore  deluded  editors 
that  we  have  here  caught  up  with  this  fast-running  lie  and  have  stamped 
the  life  out  of  its  disgraceful  and  stupid  form  by  this  “relative  volubility” 
of  a demonstrated  refutation.  We  also  think  that  our  editorial  friends 
can  now  readily  see  that  Dr.  Anderson’s  false  and  stupid  apology  that 
vaccination  does  not  cause  lockjaw  because,  in  his  tests,  he  has  not 
found  lockjaw  germs  in  the  virus,  itself,  is  just  about  as  true,  relevant 
and  convincing  as  if  some  false  apologist  for  a gasoline  company  should 
gravely  tell  us  that  gasoline  never  causes  fire  or  explosion  because  he 
never  found  the  least  spark  of  fire  in  any  specimen  of  gasoline  which 

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he  had  ever  examined ! There  is  another  and  similar  and  favorite  false 
argument  constantly  used  by  vaccinators,  which  is  to  the  effect  that,  be- 
cause a certain  make  or  lot  of  virus  was  used  in  a large  number  of  vac- 
cinations without  any  lockjaw  resulting,  therefore  the  virus  or  vaccina- 
tion was  not  to  blame  in  the  few  cases  in  which  lockjaw  did  result. 
This  false  plea  is,  of  course,  just  as  absurd  and  dishonest  as  the  argu- 
ment that  would  conclude  that  gasoline  could  not  be  the  cause  of  ex- 
plosion and  fire  in  one  place  because  the  very  same  make  of  gasoline 
was  used  in  many  other  places  without  causing  any  fire  or  explosion ! 

VALUE  OF  DR.  ANDERSON  AND  HIS  REPORT  TO 
VACCINE  MAKERS 

Now,  no  matter  how  irrelevant,  misleading,  one-sided  or  half-truth- 
ful such  reports  as  Dr.  Anderson’s  may  be  when  fearlessly  and  thor- 
oughly examined  in  the  light  of  all  the  facts,  yet  surely  the  “medical 
expert”  who  can  make  such  a report  which  will  ostensibly  give  vaccin- 
ation a clean  bill  of  health,  so  far  as  causing  the  dreadful  and  frequent 
deaths  from  vaccinal  lockjaw  is  concerned,  and  who  can  also  succeed 
in  getting  such  a report  printed  in  a high  government  publication  with 
its  high  sanction  and  reputation  for  accuracy  and  reliability  among  the 
people,  surely  such  an  expert  is  of  great  value  to  the  big  vaccination 
interests  in  this  country.  And  when  such  expert  can  also  succeed  in 
making  the  big  editors  of  our  great  daily  papers  like  the  New  York 
Tribune  and  World  and  The  Brooklyn  Eagle,  and  many  others,  abject 
dupes  of  his  medical  fallacies,  half-truths  and  concealments,  on  this 
subject  of  vaccination  and  lockjaw,  surely  we  say  such  an  expert  is 
worth  a big  salary  not  only  to  the  million  dollar  vaccine  company  which 
now  employs  him,  but  to  the  whole  tribe  of  vaccine  makers  in  this 
country,  with  their  capital  of  about  twenty  millions.  What  the  actual 
value  of  Dr.  Anderson’s  report  is,  however,  to  the  cause  of  public  truth 
and  right,  to  medical  safety  and  accuracy,  and  to  human  health  and 
life,  is  quite  another  question,  which  I will  now  leave  to  the  public  con- 
science to  decide,  having  here  given  the  full  and  fearless  truth  in  this 
matter  so  far  as  I have  been  able  to  obtain  it.  And  to  enable  the  public 
to  better  decide  on  this  question  and  to  get  further  light  on  both  sides  of 
this  great  subject  I can  here  cite  several  expert  contemporaries  of  Dr. 
Anderson,  who  will  fully  counteract  his  one-sided  apology  and  give  the 
truth  on  both  sides,  which  will  show  what  a piece  of  half-truth  and  spe- 
cial pleading  Dr.  Anderson’s  report  is.  See  Studies  of  Dr.  Francis,  as 
before  quoted,  in  Bulletin  No.  95  U.  S.  Hygienic  Laboratory,  August, 

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1914;  Dr.  Rosenau’s  recent  work,  1914,  “Preventive  Medicine  and  Hy- 
giene/” pages  6,  7,  67,  69  and  73;  Dr.  Osier’s  “Modern  Medicine,”  1913. 
Vol.  I.,  pages  580,  581,  582  and  848;  Dr.  Joseph  McFarland  on  “Tetanus 
and  Vaccination,”  in  Journal  of  Medical  Research,  Boston,  Mass.,  May. 
1902.  These  authorities  will  also  show  that  lockjaw  has  a variable 
period  of  incubation,  both  long  and  short,  and  not  a uniformly  short 
and  constant  period,  as  Dr.  Anderson  tries  to  show  in  order  to  excuse 
vaccine  virus  and  vaccination  from  all  responsibility  for  causing  lockjaw 

RECAPITULATION 

THE  SEVERAL  WAYS  IN  WHICH  VACCINATION  CAUSES 
FATAL  LOCKJAW  SHOWN;  MEDICAL  PERVERSION  AND 
EVASION  OF  THE  TRUTH  EXPOSED  AND  DENOUNCED 

From  what  has  already  been  shown  it  must  therefore  be  clear 
now  that  there  are  at  least  four  distinct  ways  in  which  vaccination  can 
cause  death  from  lockjaw: — 

First:  The  lockjaw  germs  may  be  in  the  virus  itself  and  be  inocu- 
lated directly  into  the  vaccination  wound  at  the  moment  of  vaccination. 
And,  despite  Dr.  Anderson’s  negative  tests,  the  possibility  of  this  direct 
infection  can  exist  at  any  time,  as  admitted  by  some  of  our  best  author- 
ites,  just  quoted,  on  account  of  the  many  ways  in  which  the  infection 
can  enter  the  virus,  from  the  vaccinated  calf  itself  and  otherwise,  and 
also  because  its  presence  cannot  always  be  proved  by  test,  although 
known  to  be  in  the  virus,  the  failures  to  thus  detect  by  test  being  as 
high  as  26  per  cent,  out  of  100  specimens  known  to  contain  the  infec- 
tion. (See  Studies  of  Dr.  Francis  just  referred  to.) 

Second:  The  lockjaw  germ,  which  is  widely  distributed  in  some 
localities,  may  exist  on  the  person  of  the  vaccinator  or  the  vaccinated 
at  the  time  of  vaccination  and  be  then  introduced  into  the  wound  with 
the  virus  and  the  two  infections  may  thus  develop  together,  the  pus 
infection  in  the  virus  being  necessary  to  “activate”  the  lockjaw  germs  as 
already  shown. 

Third:  The  lockjaw  germ  may  enter  the  vaccination  wound  and 
grow  in  its  pus  secretion  at  any  time  during  its  suppurating  stage  by 
chance  scratching,  abrasion  or  absorption,  and  thus  develop  its  awful 
toxin  with  fatal  effect  on  the  vaccinated  child. 

Fourth:  The  lockjaw  germ  may  already  exist  within  the  body  when 
the  vaccination  is  performed,  and  is  known  to  frequently  exist,  as  a 
natural  tenant  or  denizen  of  the  healthy  human  body,  in  nearly  one- 
quarter  of  the  human  race ! This  is  also  the  case  with  several  other 

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disease  germs.  In  such  cases  the  indwelling  lockjaw  germ  will  remain 
entirely  inert,  dormant  and  harmless  in  the  body  unless  some  condi- 
tion necessary  to  its  “activation”  or  growth  is  presented,  such  as  that  of 
a suppurating  sore,  ulcer,  abscess  or  wound,  anywhere  within  or  upon 
the  body,  the  pus-infected  or  suppurating  vaccination  sore  being,  of 
course,  the  ideal  condition  for  the  activation  and  growth  of  the  fatal 
lockjaw  infection,  as  already  shown;  and  this  is  probably  the  most  com- 
mon and  dangerous  way  in  which  vaccination  can  cause  death  from 
lockjaw,  and  the  greatest  care  in  the  preparation  of  the  virus  itself  can- 
not avoid  this  danger! 

It  will  therefore  be  seen  that  in  every  one  of  these  instances  the 
vaccination  wound  or  sore  itself  is  the  essential  cause  or  condition  of 
the  lockjaw  infection,  which  could  not  or  would  not  exist  without  this 
condition,  or  its  equivalent,  and  hence  it  is  nothing  but  a dastardly 
evasion  and  perversion  of  medical  truth  and  honesty  to  try  to  show 
that,  because  the  lockjaw  germ  is  not  in  the  virus  at  the  moment  of 
vaccination,  or  that  it  gets  into  the  wound  afterwards  through  some 
natural  chance  or  condition  to  which  the  human  body  is  constantly  sub- 
jected, therefore  the  act  of  vaccination  is  not  responsible  for  the  result- 
ing death  from  lockjaw. 


“ASSASSINATION  OF  THE  BLOOD”  MUST  BE  PUNISHED 

AND  STOPPED 

It  is  time,  therefore,  that  this  outrageously  dishonest  medical  quibble- 
as  to  the  exact  source  of  infection  in  vaccinal  lockjaw  was  silenced 
once  for  all.  What  difference  does  it  make  to  the  victim  of  this  terribly 
fatal  disease  whether  the  lockjaw  germ  was  in  the  virus  itself  or  in  or 
on  the  victim's  own  body,  when  in  either  case  the  act  of  vaccination, 
per  se  and  ab  initio,  is  the  cause  of  the  infection  becoming  active  and 
fatal  in  the  human  body?  A logic  which  would  contend  otherwise 
would  free  the  assassins  of  Presidents  Garfield  and  McKinley  from  the 
charge  of  murder  because,  forsooth,  the  fatal  septic  infection  which 
killed  these  victims  was  not  on  the  murderous  bullets  when  they  were 
fired  into  their  bodies  but  entered  the  wounds  afterwards  through  their 
own  carelessness ! This  is  exactly  the  false  and  murderous  logic  that 
is  constantly  used  by  our  false  and  well-paid  professional  apologists  for 
vaccination  and  by  their  great  dupes,  our  befooled  editors,  who  brazenly 
or  ignorantly  use  it  in  defense  of  this  great  medical  malpractice  of 
forcing  a most  dangerous  farm  of  disease  and  blood  infection  on  healthy 
and  helpless  little  school  children,  which  a great  English  doctor,  James 

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J.  Garth  Wilkinson,  so  truly  calls  the  “Assassination  of  the  Blood”  in 
the  following  glowing  words,  written  many  years  ago,  but  which  convey 
a stinging  rebuke  to  men  of  his  own  great  profession  in  this  matter 
today : — 

“Vaccination  traverses  and  tramples  upon  all  these  safeguards 
and  wisdoms;  it  goes  direct  to  the  blood,  or,  still  worse,  to  the  lymph, 
and  not  with  food;  it  puts  poison,  introduced  by  puncture,  and  that  has 
no  test  applicable  to  it,  and  can  have  no  character  given  to  it  but  that  it 
is  fivefold  animal  and  human  poison,  at  a blow  into  the  very  centre, 
thus  otherwise  guarded  by  nature  in  the  providence  of  God.  This  is 
blood  assassination,  and  like  a murderer’s  life.  The  point,  however, 
here  is  that  this  amazing  act  is  the  homicidal  insanity  of  a whole  pro- 
fession.” See  “On  Human  Science,  Good  and  Evil.”  Lippincott,  Phila.* 
1876.  P.  35. 


FUTURE  ILLUSTRATIONS 

We  had  intended  to  illustrate  this  pamphlet  with  a series  of  illus- 
trations showing  what  the  act  of  vaccination  really  is  and  the  true 
nature  of  the  vaccination  wound,  in  its  various  stages,  as  being  simply 
a pus  infection,  or  blood  poisoning  essentially,  and  how  this  pus  in- 
fected wound  makes  a perfect  culture  ground  for  lockjaw  and  other 
deadly  infections.  These  illustrations  would  also  show  how  the  vac- 
cine virus  is  made  by  the  infection  of  cattle  with  a combination  of  hu- 
man and  animal  diseases  and  how  its  manufacture  and  use  thus  involves 
the  extensive  infection  of  two  races  of  animals,  cattle  and  mankind, 
and  how  the  great  epidemics  of  “Foot  and  Mouth  Disease”  in  cattle, 
which  scourged  this  country  in  1902,  1908  and  1914,  have  been  caused 
by  vaccine  virus  and  have  involved  the  destruction  of  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands of  animals  in  over  a score  of  states,  at  a loss  of  many  millions 
of  dollars  to  the  government  and  people  of  this  country. 

For  official  proof  of  these  epidemics  of  Foot  and  Mouth  Disease 
caused  by  vaccination,  see  Reports  of  the  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Animal 
Industry  for  1902  and  1908,  and  also  Year  Book  of  the  U.  S.  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture  for  1914,  page  20.  See  also  my  pamphlet  “Open 
Your  Eyes.” 

FOOT  AND  MOUTH  DISEASE  CAUSED  BY  VACCINATION 

This  dreaded  Foot  and  Mouth  Disease  may  be  described  as  a form 
or  variety  of  “cowpox”  with  eruptions  on  the  body  and  extremities  and 
in  the  mouth  and  throat  and  on  internal  organs  and  has  some  resemb- 

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lance,  in  its  worst  forms,  to  a severe  chicken  pox,  or  a mongrel  small- 
pox, and  diphtheria  combined,  and  is  transmissible  to  mankind  in.  vac- 
cination and  otherwise.  This  vile  cattle  disease  did,  in  fact,  infect  the 
vaccine  virus  of  some  makers  for  several  years  and  did  cause  much 
human  infection  until  this  condition  was  discovered  during  the  second 
great  epidemic  in  1908;  and  our  intended  illustrations  would  show 
some  horrible  examples  of  this  infection  in  child  and  adult,  man  and 
woman,  by  photographs  of  actual  cases  of  this  disease  conveyed  by 
vaccination.  We  find,  however,  that  the  inclusion  of  these  several 
illustrations,  with  necessary  descriptions,  would  make  this  pamphlet, 
which  is  already  too  large,  much  larger  yet,  and  we  have  therefore  re- 
served this  matter  for  a fully  illustrated  pamphlet  which  will  be  issued 
later  on  with  the  title,  “The  Horrors  and  Lies  of  Vaccination  Exposed 
and  Illustrated”  and  which  will  also  contain  pictures  of  the  many 
children  killed  by  vaccination  in  this  State  in  1914  and  1915,  which 
number  thirty  or  more. 

DEATH  TALLY  OF  THE  “ASSASSINS  OF  THE  BLOOD.” 
VACCINAL  LOCKJAW  AND  SEPTICEMIA 
As  we  have  before  stated,  these  murderous  “Assassins  of  the 
Blood,”  vaccinal  lockjaw  and  septicemia,  are  now  killing  our  little  school 
children  with  a fatality  five  to  ten  times  more  than  smallpox,  under 
what  the  great  English  doctor,  Wilkinson,  has  so  properly  called  the 
“homicidal  insanity”  of  the  medical  profession  who  fatuously  force  this 
alleged  remedy  on  our  healthy  children  ostensibly  to  prevent  smallpox, 
whereas  facts  show  that  natural  smallpox  is  not  one-tenth  as  danger- 
ous to  human  health  and  life  and  particularly  to  child  life,  as  vaccinal 
lockjaw  and  septicemia  now  prove  themselves  to  be  every  year!  Note 
this  shocking  comparative  death  tally  for  1914  in  New  York  State 


alone : — 

Deaths  from  Vaccinal  Lockjaw  and  Septicemia 30 

Deaths  from  Smallpox 3 


Note  also  this  shocking  tally  from  the  Reports  of  the  Registrar- 
General  of  England,  the  highest  statistical  authority  in  the  English- 
speaking  world,  which  tells  the  same  horrible  story  against  vaccina- 

tl0n  ' Total  Deaths  from  Total  Deaths  from 


Year.  Smallpox.  Vaccination. 

1906  21  29 

1907  10  12 

1908... 12  13 


Total  Deaths  from  Smallpox  for  six  years  1905  to  1910 199 

Total  Deaths  from  Vaccination  for  six  years  1905  to  1910 99 

Deaths  from  Smallpox  in  said  period  under  5 years  old 26 

Deaths  from  Vaccination  in  said  period  under  5 years  old 98 

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Note  this  latest  shocking  record  from  the  Registrar-General  of 
England  in  the  very  last  reports  in  print  for  the  three  years  1911,  1912 
and  1913,  which  tells  a similar  story  of  vaccinal  fatality  almost  down 


to  date: — 

Total  Deaths  from  Smallpox  for  all  ages  for  3 years,  1911  to  1913 42 

Total  Deaths  from  Vaccination  for  all  ages  in  stid  3 years • 31 

Deaths  from  Smallpox  in  children  of  5 years  and  under.  ! 11 

Deaths  from  Vaccination  in  children  of  same  age 30 


Here  it  will  be  noted  that  for  the  last  three  years  the  total  deaths 
from  vaccination  are  three-quarters  of  the  total  deaths  from  smallpox, 
whereas  the  deaths  from  vaccination  in  children  five  years  old  and 
under  are  about  three  times  more  than  the  deaths  from  smallpox  in  the 
same  age ! 

For  further  data  on  this  point  see  my  pamphlets,  “The  Crime 
Against  the  School  Child,”  “Open  Your  Eyes,”  and  “Serious  Warning/ 
and  also  Mr.  Loyster’s  pamphlet  cited  on  page  11. 


VACCINATION  MORE  “RISKY”  AND  DEADLY  THAN 

SMALLPOX 

As  a matter  of  cold  fact,  therefore,  these  “Assassins  of  the  Blood.' 
vaccination  and  lockjaw,  offer  a far  greater  risk  and  danger  to  human 
health  and  life  than  natural  smallpox  itself,  and  if  we  should  fear  any- 
thing for  our  children  it  should  be  vaccination  and  lockjaw  instead  of 
smallpox,  of  which  we  stand  in  far  less  danger  than  of  being  struck  by 
lightning,  whereas  lockjaw  is  a steady  and  constant  danger  twenty-five 
times  greater  than  smallpox  as  the  following  comparative  list  of  deaths 
from  Smallpox,  Lightning  and  Lockjaw  in  the  State  of  New  York  will 
readily  show.  This  list  is  taken  from  the  Reports  of  our  State  Depart- 
ment of  Health  for  the  four  last  years  in  print,  1910  to  1913.  as 
follows : — 


Smallpox.  Lightning.  Lockjaw. 

1910  7 deaths  16  deaths  94  deaths 

1911  3 “ 30  “ 114  “ 

1912  4 “ 21  “ 97  “ 

1913  1 “ 13  “ 111  “ 


It  will  be  noted  that  the  ordinary  danger  from  smallpox  is  so  actu- 
ally and  relatively  insignificant  here  that  it  is  regularly  six  times  less 
than  that  of  being  struck  by  lightning  and  that  the  danger  from  lockjaw 
of  all  kinds  is  so  great  and  constant  that  it  is  about  twenty-five  times 
greater  than  that  from  smallpox,  whereas  vaccinal  lockjaw,  which  is 
about  ten  per  cent,  of  all  lockjaw  deaths,  is  at  least  three  times  more 
dangerous  by  actual  frequency-  of  occurrence  than  natural  smallpox! 

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Surely  these  facts  speak  clearly  and  loudly  for  themselves  as  illustrating 
the  “homicidal  insanity”  of  that  part  of  the  medical  profession  which 
forces  vaccination  on  our  little  children  as  an  alleged  remedy  to  save 
them  from  smallpox,  but  which  we  here  clearly  show  is  not  half  as 
dangerous  to  their  health  and  life  as  the  vaccination  itself,  as  the  awful 
record  of  child  slaughter  from  vaccination  in  New  York  State  in  the 
past  t\vo  years  will  doubly  prove,  beyond  the  shadow  of  a doubt. 

CONCLUSION 

ALL  FORCED  VACCINATION  MUST  BE  LEGALLY  SUP- 
PRESSED AND  THE  AWFUL  CHILD  SLAUGHTER  CAUSED 
BY  IT  LEGALLY  PUNISHED. 

It  is  time,  therefore,  that  this  dastardly  evasion  and  perversion  of 
the  full  medical  truth  by  men  who  force  vaccination  on  the  people  and 
profit  hugely  by  it,  should  be  emphatically  condemned  by  every  man  and 
woman  of  common  honesty  and  common  sense  in  this  community,  and 
that  they  should  now  make  some  common  legal  effort  to  permanently 
suppress  this  dangerous  medical  evil  of  compulsory  vaccination,  which 
now  causes  more  deaths  than  smallpox.  And  it  is  surely  high  time  also 
that  the  slaughter  of  our  little  school  children  by  this  most  frightfully 
fatal  disease  of  vaccinal  lockjaw,  which  is  now  ten  times  more  rapid, 
more  frequent  and  fatal  in  its  effects  than  smallpox,  should  be  sup- 
pressed by  criminal  prosecution  of  the  men  responsible  not  only  for 
forcing  vaccination  upon  the  people  and  misrepresenting  it  as  safe  and 
harmless,  but  also  for  constantly  denying  and  concealing  this  awful  child 
slaughter  in  our  death  certificates  and  vital  statistics. 

FINAL  APPEAL  FOR  MEDICAL  REFORM 

MENACE  OF  MEDICAL  SOCIETIES  AND  MEDICAL 
COMPULSIONS 

A MEDICAL  CHRIST  NEEDED 

In  closing  I would  therefore  like  to  further  emphasize  the  specific 
principles  for  which  our  League  contends  and  the  medical  reforms  we 
wish  to  accomplish ; and,  as  I now  look  over  the  field  of  modern  medi- 
cine, disgraced  as  it  is  by  the  evils  of  medical  compulsion  and  falsifica- 
tion, I feel  that  what  the  profession  needs  today  is  a medical  Christ 
who  would  go  into  the  temple  of  healing  and  scourge  out  of  its  portals 
the  “money  changers”  of  compulsion  and  falsification  that  now  seem  to 
have  full  possession  there.  And  I now  want  to  say  to  the  better  men 

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in  this  great  profession  that,  if  they  will  not  undertake  this  reform  and 
cleansing  of  their  own  temple  from  this  great  evil,  the  suffering  laity 
(who  outnumber  the  doctors  one  thousand  to  one)  will  surely  do  this 
work  effectually  before  very  long — and  the  reforms  which  we  must  thus 
accomplish  are  simply  these,  towards  which  we  ask  the  co-operation  of 
every  reasonable  man,  whether  lay  or  medical : — 

First:  Full  medical  freedom  with  the  repeal  and  prohibition  of  all 
compulsory  vaccination  in  every  shape  and  form,  leaving  voluntary  vac- 
cination free  for  every  one  who  believes  in  it  or  desires  it. 

Second:  The  enactment  of  heavy  penalties  for  all  concealment  and 
falsification  of  medical  facts  or  disasters  in  vital  records. 

Third:  The  removal  of  all  medical  doctors  and  members  of  medical 
societies  from  the  head  and  control  of  our  departments  of  health  and 
vital  statistics  and  their  replacement  by  able  laymen  who  will  have  no 
interest  in  medical  operations,,  compulsions  or  concealments,  as  is  now 
the  practice  in  England. 

Fourth:  The  adoption  of  an  amendment  to  the  Constitution  prohib- 
iting all  compulsory  medicine  as  effectually  as  it  now  prohibits  the  less 
dangerous  evil  of  compulsory  religion. 

In  this  good  work  we  therefore  ask  the  co-operation  of  all  reform 
associations  in  the  country,  who  must  unite  in  defeating  the  grave 
menace  of  medical  domination  and  compulsion,  now  forced  on  the 
people  by  our  gigantic  medical  societies  organized  all  over  this  country, 
which  is  now  the  greatest  danger  to  personal  right  and  safety  in  the 
body  politic. 

CHAS.  M.  HIGGINS, 

Treasurer,  Anti-Vaccination  League  of  America 
271  Ninth  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

March  1st,  1916. 

Main  Office  of  League 
1420  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

John  Pitcairn,  President 

Porter  F.  Cope,  Secretary 

Other  Officers  in  New  York  State 
Dr.  J.  W.  Hodge,  Niagara  Falls,  Vice-President 
Hugh  A.  Daniel,  Newburgh,  Director 


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ADVERTISEMENT 


the  aNti- vaccination  league 

OF  AMERICA 


OFFICERS 

President 

John  Pitcairn,  2115  Land  Title  Building 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 


Honorary  Vice-Presidents 

William  Tebb,  F.  R.  G.  S.,  etc.,  “Rede  Hall,' 
Burstow,  By  Horley,  Surrey,  England. 

Alfred  Russel  Wallace,  F.  R.  S.,  O.  M.,  etc 
Deceased,  November  7,  1913. 

Walter  R.  Hadwen,  M.  D.,  G.  M.  M.  S.,  etc.. 
‘Brunswick  House,”  Brunswick  Square,  Glou- 


OBJECTS 

^First.  To  promote  the  universal  acceptance 
of  the  principle  that  health  is  Nature’s  great- 
est safeguard  against  disease,  and  that  there- 
fore no  State  has  the  right  to  demand  of  any 
one  the  impairment  of  his  or  her  health. 

Second.  To  take  steps  to  secure  the  aboli- 
tion of  all  oppressive  medical  laws,  and  to  cester>  England. 

counteract  the  growing  tendency  to  enlarge  ■ Art£ur  PhelPs,  23,  Aug- 

fho  , ...  s ustus  Road,  Edgbaston,  Birmingham,  England, 

the  scope  of  State  medicine  at  the  expense  Henri  Boucher,  M.  D.,  Chev.  L.  H.,  etc.,  36, 

of,  the  freedom  of  the  individual.  Hue  Ernest  Renan,  Issy,  France. 

Third.  To  carry  on  a campaign  of  education  GeSanyM‘  D"  M'  P"  etC”  Frierlenau' 

among  the  people  respecting  the  evil  results  of  Carlo  Ruata  M.  D.,  etc..  The  University 
vaccination,  including  its  effects  in  causing  de-  Perugia,  Italy. 

generation  and  in  deteriorating  the  public  |„  Mont^e  Leverson,  A.  M„  M.  D„  Ph.  D. 

health  PUDI1C  Care  of  London  City  and  Midland  Bank,  62. 

Westbourne  Grove,  London,  W.,  England. 

Fourth.  To  hold  an  Annual  Conference  of  John  W.  Hodge,  M.  D.,  Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y. 

members  of  this  League,  of  delegates  and  rep-  Za.C]iaio1J'  MilIer>  M-  D-  Deceased,  Novem- 

oer  14,  Lo. 


Deceased,  Febru- 


resentatives  of  anti-vaccination  societies  in  Walter  M.  James,  M.  D. 

America,  and  of  such  individuals  as  are  in-  arY  24,  1915. 
terested  in  the  objects  of  this  League  William  Bradley  Clarke,  M.  D.,  1520  College 

Fiftn  >t-  . , ‘ Ave.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

i it tli.  To  adopt  such  means  as  may  seem 

advisable  and  practicable  to  give  aid  and  Vice-Presidents 

assistance  to  societies  or  individuals  engaged  j C.  Oscar  Beasley,  Esq.,  Room  30o  41  S 

in  the  movement  for  freedom  from  compulsory  j Fifteenth  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

R.  S.  Weir,  34  Chester  Ave.,  Riverdale,  To- 
ronto, Ontario,  Canada. 

John  W.  Griggs,  634  Globe  Building,  St. 
Paul,  Minn. 

J.  H.  Greer,  M.  D.,  Suite  206,  162  N.  Dear- 
born St.,  Chicago,  111. 

Mrs.  J.  L.  C.  Henderson,  Tremont  Temple. 
Boston,  Mass. 

Secretary 


vaccination. 

MEMBERSHIP 

Any  person  who  is  in  sympathy  with  the 
objects  of  the  League  may  become  an  active 
member  upon  payment  of  an  annual  fee  of 
not  less  than  one  dollar.  Applications  are  re- 
ceived by  the  Secretary,  and  are  subject  to 
the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 


Porter  F. 
phia,  Pa. 


BRANCH  LEAGUES 


Cope,  P.  O.  Box  2003,  Philadel- 

Treasurer 


Tn„a)  ^ T Charles  M.  Higgins,  271  Ninth  St.,  Brooklyn. 

Bocal,  State  and  Provincial  Leagues,  on  N.  Y. 

payment  of  an  annual  fee  of  not  less  than  Directors 

three  dollars,  and  subject  to  the  approval  of  Major  Thomas  Boudren.  Deceased,  October 
the  Board  of  Directors,  may  be  admitted  to  I 15,  1£'14. 

The  Anti-Vaccination  League  of  America  D’  F‘  D'  Jenkins>  H50  E.  Sixty-third  St. 

XXIUCA  1L/«X.  QhiCclffO  111 

Every  branch  so  admitted  is  entitled  to  three  Hugh’  A.  Daniel,  115  Clark  St.,  Newburgh 

delegates  to  represent  it  at  the  meetings  of  N.  Y. 

The  Anti-Vaccination  League  of  America  N'  A'  McQueston-  D-  D.  S„  P.  O.  Box  423 

Mansfield,  Ohio. 

INTERNATIONAL  ORGAN  L P'  A‘  Eruechert,  1109  Belmont  St.,  Port 

land,  Oregon. 

The  Vaccination  Inquirer  and  Health  Re-  Harry  B.  Bradford,  3541  Holmead  Place 

view,  organ  of  The  National  Anti-Vaccination  Washington,  D.  C. 

League,  27,  Southampton  Street,  Strand,  W.  C„  M^phis  Tenm  3 S'  St' 

London,  England,  is  sent  to  all  active  members  John  S.  Snavely,  Lebanon  County  Trust 

of  The  Aijti- Vaccination  League  of  America  Euilding,  Lebanon,  Pa. 

whose  annual  dues  are  not  in  arrears.  PaFn0Ch  S<  PrlCe*  A‘  M"  Th'  B"  Bryn  Athyn' 


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POSTSCRIPT 


SPECIAL  NOTE  TO  PRESS  AND  PUBLIC 

The  release  of  this  pamphlet  for  public  circulation  has  been  much 
delayed  by  technical  objections  met  with  in  bringing  suits  for  libel  and 
breach  of  advertising  contract  against  The  Tribune  and  others.  Our 
lawyers  have  advised  us,  after  long  discussion  and  investigation,  that  as 
our  League  is  not  legally  incorporated  we  cannot  bring  suit  as  an  asso- 
ciation, and,  as  no  individual  names  have  been  mentioned  in  the  libelous 
matter  complained  of,  that  a personal  suit  cannot  be  brought  by  any  of 
our  officers  personally  concerned.  As  oui:  hands,  therefore,  seem  to  be 
now  tied  by  these  legal  technicalities  from  obtaining  proper  redress  in 
court  for  the  wrongs  complained  of,  we  therefore  must  be  now  content 
to  appeal  to  the  great  Court  of  Public  Opinion,  where  we  know  mere 
technicalities  will  not  hold  and  where  we  are  sure  the  righteousness  of 
our  cause  and  the  unselfishness  of  our  work,  done  at  great  cost  of  labor 
and  expense,  for  the  public  good  will  be  fully  recognized  and  the  false- 
hood and  stupidity  of  the  libels  uttered  against  this  work,  which  we 
have  here  exposed  and  refuted,  will  be  emphatically  condemned. 

In  analysing  and  criticising  the  official  report  of  Dr.  J.  F.  Anderson 
in  defense  of  vaccination,  it  should  be  clearly  understood  that  we  do  not 
charge  him  with  actual  falsehood,  in  the  text  of  his  report  itself,  as  we 
can  freely  say  that  he  seems  to  keep  carefully  within  the  technical  truth 
in  the  text  of  this  report,  the  main  substance  of  which  is  simply  this : — • 
that,  after  testing  thousands  of  samples  of  vaccine  virus  during  thirteen 
years,  he  was  unable  to  find  any  lockjaw  germs  therein  by  such  test; 
and,  furthermore,  that  no  case  of  vaccinal  lockjaw  was  found  in  the 
Army  and  Navy,  although  hundreds  of  thousands  of  vaccinations  were 
performed  in  the  same  time.  Now,  all  this  might  be  quite  true  and 
yet  this  would  be  only  a mere  part  of  the  whole  truth  which  should  be 
fully  told  and  which  part  alone  would  have  very  little  relevancy  or 
significance  to  cover  the  broad  subject  which  Dr.  Anderson  attempted 
to  cover  in  his  government  report  under  this  broad  title  of,  “Post  Vac- 
cination Tetanus”  (U.  S.  Public  Health  Reports,  July  16th,  1915).  This 
subject,  in  plain  English,  simply  means  “Lockjaw  After  Vaccination,” 
and  to  be  fully  truthful  and  thorough  with  this  subject  and  faithful  to 
the  public  interest  in  this  subject  rather  than  to  the  interest  of  doctors 


and  vaccine  makers  it  must  be  morally  and  logically  obvious  to  any 
truthful  and  honest  person  that  Dr.  Anderson  should  have  shown  all 
ways  in  which  lockjaw  can  occur  after  vaccination  and  can  be  caused 
by  the  action  of  the  virus  or  the  operation  itself,  no  matter  whether  the 
lockjaw  germs  were  lurking  in  the  virus  itself,  or  elsewhere.  This  full 
and  thorough  treatment  of  his  subject,  giving  the  whole  truth  in  the 
matter,  Dr.  Anderson  did  not  attempt,  but  confined  himself  to  consid- 
ering merely  one  way  in  which  vaccination  can  cause  lockjaw,  viz., 
through  the  presence  of  the  germs  in  the  virus,  and  left  it  to  be  in- 
ferred or  understood  that  when  he  could  not  find  the  germs  in  the  virus 
itself  and  could  not  find  vaccinal  lockjaw  in  the  Army  and  Navy,  there- 
fore it  was  a conclusive  proof  that  vaccination  could  not  be  considered 
responsible  for  or  guilty  of  causing  lockjaw  at  all,  and  it  will  be  seen 
that  several  of  our  leading  editorial  minds  on  some  of  our  great  news- 
papers, such  as  The  New  York  Tribune,  The  Brooklyn  Daily  Eagle 
and  The  New  York  World,  and  others,  were  gravely  misled  into 
accepting  this  false  understanding  of  the  subject  from  Dr.  Anderson’s 
partial  and  one-sided  treatment  of  it  and  were  thus  caused  to  mislead 
the'public  and  to  libelize  or  misrepresent  the  honest  and  accurate  oppon- 
ents of  compulsory  vaccination  who  have  repeatedly  pointed  out  the 
dastardly  and  stupid  falsehood  of  this  contention,  and  have  clearly 
shown  how  vaccination  can  and  does  cause  death  from  lockjaw  in  sev- 
eral ways  besides  the  one  way  of  germs  in  the  virus  itself. 

Now,  it  is  obvious  that  if  the  lockjaw  germs  were  frequently  or 
commonly  found  in  the  virus  itself  there  would  probably  be  tens  of 
thousands  of  deaths  from  this  frightfully  fatal  infection  of  vaccinal  lock- 
jaw every  year,  where  there  are  now  scores  or  hundreds  of  such  deaths 
— a mortality,  such  as  it  is,  which  is  at  least  from  five  to  ten  times  the 
usual  annual  mortality  from  smallpox ! And  we  now  here  ask,  are  not 
scores  or  hundreds  of  deaths  from  vaccinal  lockjaw  and  septicemia — 
chiefly  in  little  school  children — not  in  the  Army  and  Navy — sufficient 
to  call  a halt  upon  this  medical  barbarism  of  forcing  dangerous  compul- 
sory disease  on  our  children  on  the  pretense  of  saving  them  from  small- 
pox, when  we  have  shown  that  this  compulsory  disease  is  from  five  to 
ten  times  more  fatal  to  them  than  natural  smallpox  itself?  There  may 
have  been  a time  in  the  unsanitary  and  ignorant  past  when  smallpox  was 
more  fatal  and  dangerous  than  vaccination,  but  to-day  it  is  absolutely 
demonstrable  that  general  vaccination  is  more  dangerous  and  fatal  than 
natural  smallpox  and  it  is  time,  therefore,  that  this  medical  crime  of 
compulsory  disease  and  death  was  legally  suppressed  and  prohibited. 


It  must  therefore  be  obvious  to  all  sincerely  true  and  honest  minds 
that  the  truth  improperly  used  or  only  half  or  quarter  told  may  be  more 
deceptive  to  the  public  mind  than  a common  ordinary  lie,  and  this 
seems  to  have  been  the  nature  and  effect  of  Dr.  Anderson’s  ostensibly 
truthful  report  which,  as  I have  shown,  has  most  seriously  deceived  the 
public  mind,  as  proved  in  the  erroneous  and  absurd  editorial  articles 
quoted  from  some  of  our  leading  newspapers  and  based  directly  on  Dr. 
Anderson’s  report. 

Dr.  Anderson’s  falsely  truthful  report  was  therefore  not  only  de- 
ceptive and  absurd  and  one-sided  in  trying  to  base  the  whole  defense  of 
vaccination  from  causing  lockjaw  on  alleged  proof  of  the  absence  of 
the  germs  in  the  virus,  but  it  was  also  further  deceptive  and  absurd  in 
referring  to  the  alleged  absence  of  vaccinal  lockjaw  in  the  Army  and 
Navy,  which  was  a bad  defense  from  this  charge,  because  the  Army 
and  Navy  are  only  a mere  insignificant  fraction  of  the  whole  population 
and  one  which  is  perhaps  least  susceptible  to  both  vaccination  and  lock- 
jaw of  any  part  of  the  population.  And  particularly  is  this  the  fact 
with  the  Navy,  where  there  is  little  or  no  contact  with  the  soil  or  with 
horses  or  domestic  animals,  which  are  the  chief  sources  of  lockjaw 
infections. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  big  class  of  infants  and  school  children  are 
most  susceptible  to  vaccination  and  lockjaw,  naturally,  and,  furthermore, 
are  almost  constantly  exposed  to  contact  with  the  soil  by  playing  in  the 
dirt  and  handling  domestic  animals,  etc.,  and  are  thus  most  susceptible 
to  vaccinal  lockjaw  of  any  part  of  the  population,  and  at  the  same  time 
this  class  of  infants  and  school  children  form  an  immense  portion  of 
the  population  which  is  three  hundred  times  greater  than  the  whole 
Army  and  Navy!  For  example: — 'the  whole  population  of  the  United 
States  is  one  hundred  millions,  while  the  Army  and  Navy  does  not  ex- 
ceed in  round  numbers  150,000  men;  or  a little  over  one-tenth  of  one 
per  cent,  of  the  whole  population;  whereas  the  infants  and  school 
children  under  twenty  years  of  age  constitute  fully  forty  per  cent,  of 
the  population  or  about  forty  millions , highly  susceptible  to  vaccination 
and  lockjaw  as  compared  with  the  meagre  fraction  of,  say,  one-seventh 
of  one  per  cent,  in  the  Army  and  Navy,  least  susceptible  to  vaccination 
and  lockjaw!  Surely,  therefore,  these  startling  and  telltale  figures  speak 
loudly  and  emphatically  for  themselves  in  showing  the  very  absurd  and 
deceptive  “truthfulness”  of  Dr.  Anderson’s  report,  and  prove  how 
easily  he  could  have  found  instances  of  fatal  vaccinal  lockjaw  and  sep- 
ticemia in  this  enormous  and  most  susceptible  class  of  infants  and  school 


children  if  he  had  looked  very  hard  for  them  and  then  tried  to  tell  the 
trusting  public  the  full  truth  about  vaccination  and  lockjaw  and  their 
great  danger  to  human  health  and  life,  as  we  have  honestly  and  care- 
fully tried  to  do  in  this  pamphlet,  at  great  cost  of  labor  and  expense 
to  ourselves,  solely  for  the  disinterested  cause  of  public  right  and  truth 
on  a most  important  question  of  public  health.  As  an  instance  of  this 
awful  truth  I have  shown  on  page  21  in  this  pamphlet  how  five  little 
school  children  were  killed  in  one  week  alone  by  vaccinal  lockjaw  about 
October  1st,  1915! 

We  therefore  believe  that  this  great  Court  of  Public  Opinion,  to 
which  we  now  appeal,  when  it  comes  to  carefully  consider  the  con- 
vincing truths  which  we  have  here  placed  before  it,  will  give  the  verdict 
to  us  without  hesitation.  We  also  hope  and  believe  that  the  great  news- 
papers, such  as  The  New  York  Tribune,  The  Brooklyn  Eagle,  The 
New  York  World,  and  others,  which  have  allowed  themselves  to  be 
gravely  deceived  by  the  medical  falsehoods  and  half  truths  herein  ex- 
posed, will  be  the  first  to  resent  this  deception  and  this  reflection  on 
their  own  mental  acumen  and  thereby  perform  a tardy  justice  to  those 
who  have  given  them  the  full  truth  from  the  outset  and  thus  make  the 
proper  and  honorable  amend  to  us  which  these  facts  so  justly  call  for. 

CHAS.  M.  HIGGINS, 

Treasurer  Anti- Vaccination  League  of  America. 

271  Ninth  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

June  1st,  1916. 


ADVERTISEMENT 


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“THE  FALLACY  OF  VACCINATION”  by  John  Pitcairn,  President 
of  the  League.  This  is  a large,  four-page  leaflet  reprinted  from  the  Ladies’ 
Home  Journal.  It  is  a very  full,  clear  and  comprehensive  article  showing 
the  fallacies  and  dangers  of  vaccination  and  the  barbarism  of  all  compul- 
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“SERIOUS  WARNING,”  by  Chas.  M.  Higgins.  This  is  a small  pam- 
phlet of  28  pages.  It  exposes  the  present  dangerous  oppression  of  the 
people  by  our  gigantic  medical  societies  organized  all  over  this  land  which 
force  compulsory  medicine  upon  us  and  at  the  same  time  control  our  medi- 
cal legislation,  our  Departments  of  Health  and  Vital  Statistics,  and  can 
most  readily  and  safely  deny  and  conceal  deaths  caused  by  vaccination  and 
other  medical  malpractices,  and  thus  constitute  the  most  dangerous  power 
now  existing  in  our  body  politic,  which  must  be  immediately  curbed  and  re- 
formed for  the  sake  of  public  right  and  safety.  Impressive  statistical  data 
are  also  given  showing  that  deaths  from  vaccination  are  actually  now 
greater  than  deaths  from  smallpox,  particularly  in  little  children,  which  facts 
are  clearly  disclosed  in  English  records  but  are  denied  and  concealed  in  this 
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as  a matter  of  demonstrable  fact(  vaccination  is  now  killing  more  children 
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“VACCINATION  RESULTS  IN  NEW  YORK  STATE  IN  1914,”  by 
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illustrated  with  pictures  of  many  children  killed  by  vaccination  in  1914, 
including  the  author’s  own  son.  This  is  a very  impressive  pamphlet  and 
shows  the  deaths  of  over  30  school  children  caused  by  vaccination  in  New 
York  State  in  1914,  with  photographs  and  particulars,  making  a most  shock- 
ing indictment  of  this  dangerous  medical  practice  and  a rebuke  of  the  evil 
law  which  now  allows  it  but  which  should  be  immediately  repealed.  This 
pamphlet  will  be  mailed  upon  request  with  ten  cents  to  cover  cost  of 
printing  and  postage. 

“BULLETIN  OF  THE  ANTI- VACCINATION  LEAGUE.”  This  is 
a four-page  illustrated  leaflet  published  occasionally  by  Porter  F.  Cope, 
Secretary,  1420  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  gives  current  facts  relat- 
ing to  the  evil  results  of  compulsory  vaccination  and  the  progress  of  the 
agitation  for  its  repeal  and  suppression  in  this  and  other  countries.  Single 
copies  five  cents.  Sent  free  to  all  active  members  of  the  League. 

“VACCINATION  AND  LOCKJAW.”  The  present  pamphlet  will  be 
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Assassination  of  the  Blood. 


“Vaccination  traverses  and  tramples  upon  all  these 
safeguards  and  wisdoms ; it  goes  direct  to  the  blood, 
or,  still  worse,  to  the  lymph,  and  not  with  food ; 
it  puts  poison,  introduced  by  puncture,  and  that  has 
no  test  applicable  to  it,  and  can  have  no  character 
given  to  it  but  that  it  is  fivefold  animal  and  human 
poison,  at  a blow  into  the  very  centre,  thus  otherwise 
guarded  by  nature  in  the  providence  of  God.  This  is 
blood  assassination,  and  like  a murderer’s  life.  The 
point,  however,  here  is  that  this  amazing  act  is  the 
homicidal  insanity  of  a whole  profession.” 

Dr.  Garth-Wilkinson. 

See  page  26. 


